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The Marker 



MAINE 
AT VALLEY FORGE 



PROCEEDINGS AT THE UNVEILING OF 
THE MAINE MARKER OCTOBER 17, 1907 



ALSO ROLL OF 
MAINE MEN AT VALLEY FORGE 



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TO 

HON. WILLIAM T. COBB 

GOVERNOR OF MAINE, 1 904-1 908 

WHOSE PRESENCE AT THE DEDICATION OF THE 

MAINE MARKER AT VALLEY FORGE 

HONORED THE TRADITIONS AND HISTORY OF A PEOPLE 

NEVER WANTING IN PATRIOTISM AND VALOR 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



The Marker, ...;... Frontispiece 

Map . . Page i 

The Company Present, ..... 5 

Hon. Augustus F. Moulton, .... 6 

Hon. Wilham T. Cobb, ig 

Another View, Including School Children, . 22 

The King of Prussia Inn, 24 



CONTENTS 



Foreword, Page i 

Address, President George E. Fellows^ . . 6 

Oration, Hon. Ajigustus F. Motdton^ ... 6 

Poem, Mrs. Elisabeth Ptillen, .... i8 

Address, Hon. William T. Cobb, .... 19 

Unveiling of Marker, 20 

Address, Colonel W. H. Say en, .... 20 

Address, Hon. Sa^miel IV. Pcnnypacker, . . 21 

Address, Surgeon S. C. Gordon, .... 23 

Names of Maine Men at Valley Forge, . 25 

Index to Names, 71 



PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION 

"Maine at Valley Forge" was published in 1907 under the 
auspices of the Maine Society of the Sons of the American 
Revolution, the Maine Historical Society and the Maine State 
Library assisting the Society in defraying the expense of 
publication. The edition proved inadequate to meet the 
requests for copies that came from different parts of the State. 
This newf edition, which includes an index to the list of names 
of Maine officers and soldiers at Valley Forge now added, is 
published under an Act of the Legislature of 1909, granting 
the State Historian authority to expend, under the direction of 
the Governor and Council, in the publication of historical 
matter and data relating to the State of Maine, any portion of 
the money appropriated for the expenses of the State Historian. 




VALLEY FORGE PARK 

AND 

VICINITY 




VALLEY FORGE PARK 

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VICINITY 



Valley Forge Park is tinted (5reen 

Drawn 1br he Commission 

1908 




MAINE AT VALLEY FORGE 



FOREWORD 

Interest in Maine's relation to Valley Forge commenced 
with a visit which Mr. Nathan Goold made a few years ago to 
the ground occupied by Washington's army in the winter of 
1 777-1 778. On his return, Mr. Goold entered upon an investi- 
gation with reference to the soldiers from Maine who were at 
Valley Forge. In this investigation he ascertained that there 
were whole companies from Maine in Massachusetts regiments 
at Valley Forge, especially in Brewer's and Tupper's. As the 
result of these researches he estimated that there were more 
than five hundred officers and men from Maine in Washington's 
army in that memorable winter encampment. These facts 
were laid before the Maine Society of the Sons of the Ameri- 
can Revolution, and the president of the Society, Rev. Henry 
S. Burrage, D. D., prepared a statement of facts, which was 
presented to the Legislature of Maine early in 1907, with a 
request for an appropriation of five hundred dollars for the 
erection of a Maine Valley Forge memorial. The Legislature, 
after a hearing before the committee on appropriations, granted 
the request. By invitation of the Valley Forge Park Com- 
mission, Dr. Burrage visited Valley Forge in May, and the 
location of the memorial was established by the Commission. 

About this time Dr. Burrage made inquiry at the office of 
the secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as to the 



2 Maine at Valley Forge 

possibility of obtaining from the Massachusetts Revolutionary 
rolls the names of the officers and the men from Maine who 
served in Massachusetts regiments at Valley Forge. It was 
ascertained that while a perfect list could not be obtained, 
inasmuch as there are names on the rolls with no residence 
attached, an approximate list could be made ; and by an 
arrangement with Major-General A. B. Farnham, adjutant- 
general of Maine, such a list was obtained for the office of the 
adjutant-general. This list when completed, showed that 
there were men from Maine in each of the eleven Massa- 
chusetts regiments at Valley Forge. These regiments were 
as follows: Colonel Benjamin Tupper's, Colonel Samuel 
Brewer's, Colonel Edward Wigglesworth's, Colonel Joseph 
Vose's, Colonel John Bailey's, Colonel Michael Jackson's, 
Colonel Thomas ^Marshall's, Colonel Gamaliel Bradford's, 
Colonel James Wesson's, Colonel Timothy Bigelow's and 
Colonel William Shepard's. In order to make the lists as com- 
plete and authentic as possible a thorough examination was 
made of the Revolutionary rolls in the State House in Boston, 
under the direction of Mr. J. J. Tracy, chief of the department 
of Revolutionary rolls, and all the muster rolls and company 
returns in the eleven regiments that bore dates between 
October i, 1777, and April i, 1778, were carefully examined, 
and every name that carried with it a Maine residence was 
listed. In a number of instances no rolls or company returns 
were found of a date falling within the period mentioned, and 
in such cases rolls of an earlier date, also muster returns and 
wages accounts that gave proof of a man's having enlisted in 
one of the eleven regiments under the three years' call of 
January i, 1777, were taken and examined, and the names of 
all Maine men listed, as it was assumed that the individual 



Maine at Valley Forge 3 

would be with his regiment except where his discharge or 
decease prior to October i, 1777, was reported. These hsts 
will be found at the close of this report. 

It cannot be claimed, therefore, that the name of every 
man who was a resident of Maine, and served in any one of the 
eleven Massachusetts regiments at Valley Forge, is included in 
these lists, as in many instances no clue whatever could be 
discovered as to the residence of the soldier enrolled. Further- 
more, in making the lists, the clerks found entire companies 
of Maine men serving in the first three of the Massachusetts 
regiments mentioned above, and in examining the rolls they 
copied the rolls in their entirety together with the remarks 
entered against the names of individuals precisely as given on 
the original rolls. When the search was carried further, and 
embraced all names of Maine men on the rolls of Massa- 
chusetts regiments at Valley Forge, the clerks were instructed 
to eliminate all names of Maine men who could not have been 
at Valley Forge according to the evidence of the rolls, by 
reason of discharge, death or otherwise. After the rolls came 
into the possession of the adjutant-general, Dr. Burrage 
removed to a special list fifty-two names of men who could not, 
for the reason just given, have been at Valley Forge. After 
this elimination, the summary of the lists is as follows : 

COLONELS OFFICERS MEN 

Tupper, 17 253 

Brewer, 14 215 

Wiggle sworth 9 138 

Vose, ...... 7 128 

Bailey, 3 65 

Jackson, ..... o 56 

Marshall, 2 21 

Bradford, i 25 



Maine at Valley Forge 



Wesson, 
Bigelow, 
Shepard, 



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28 


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5 


56 


952 




56 



Officers and men, i,cx38 

An extended search was made for a Maine boulder on 
which to place a bronze tablet in honor of these Maine patriots ; 
but as a suitable boulder could not be found, a granite -marker 
from the quarry at Redstone, near North Conway, N. H., was 
procured, and this with an inscription in bronze was unveiled at 
Valley Forge, October 17, 1907, The cost of the memorial 
was a little more than five hundred dollars. 

The following is the inscription on the marker : 

TO COMMEMORATE THE OFFICERS AND MEN 

FROM THAT PART OF NEW ENGLAND NOW KNOWN 

AS THE STATE OF MAINE 

WHO SERVED IN MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENTS 

IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY 

UNDER WASHINGTON AT VALLEY FORGE 

IN THE WINTER OF 1777-8 

SHARING THE HARDSHIPS THERE ENDURED, 

THIS MEMORIAL 

IS ERECTED BY THE STATE OP MAINE 

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE 

MAINE SOCIETY 

OF THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 

1907 



THE UNVEILING AT VALLEY FORGE 

This occurred on Thursday, October 17, 1907. The day 
was cloudless, one of the brightest of autumn days. The 
company, including Governor Cobb of Maine and his staff, 
members of the Maine Society of the Sons of the American 
Revolution, well-known citizens of Maine, the Valley Forge 
Park Commission, members of the staff of Governor Stuart of 
Pennsylvania, and other guests, left Philadelphia by the 
Pennsylvania railroad in a special car at a little past nine 
o'clock in the forenoon. On arrival at Betzwood, the whole 
company became guests of the Valley Forge Park Commission. 
Carriages awaited them, and at once the party crossed the 
Schuylkill, and was driven to Washington's headquarters, — a 
small two and a half story stone house, having a semi- 
detached kitchen. In the house were many relics of interest, 
and a half hour was spent in examining them, and in visiting 
the various rooms. A ride through the Park, along the lines of 
Washington's intrenchments, followed. On the line occupied 
by the Pennsylvania troops, markers, with inscriptions in 
bronze, have recently been erected. At length the party 
reached that part of the line held by the Massachusetts troops. 
Paterson's Brigade, in which most of the Maine men served, 
occupied a commanding position, and on this part of the line, 
beautiful for situation, is placed the Maine marker. Here the 
children connected with the schools in the vicinity, with their 
teachers, were assembled, and they arranged themselves 



6 Maine at Valley Forge 

around the men of Maine and Pennsylvania, who had come 
hither to unveil the memorial. 

President Fellows of the University of Maine, and 
President of the Maine Society of the Sons of the American 
Revolution, presided, and in opening the unveiling service 
he said : 

It has been the custom of all nations, throughout all the 
ages, to erect and dedicate monuments to victory. But the 
climax of human achievement is not always in the triumphs of 
success. It is often in the patient endurance of toil, and in the 
sadness of suffering. 

We who are here to-day are proud that some who came 
from the land where we now live were among those who here 
endured the trials of the terrible winter of lyyy-iyyB, when 
there was little hope of immediate victory or glory. To suffer 
and wait here in this valley was a severer test of patriotism 
than the facing of cannon in the excitement of battle. 

I take pleasure in introducing to you Hon. Augustus F. 
Moulton of Portland, Me., the orator of this occasion. 

MR. MOULTON'S ADDRESS. 

We are here to-day as representatives of the State of 
Maine to take part in the dedication at Valley Forge Park of a 
monument to commemorate the valor and endurance of the 
sons of Maine once exhibited upon this spot. It is a place to 
which the patriotic American, proud of the glorious liberty- 
loving days of the Revolution, turns with a feeling of admira- 
tion that has in it quite as much of pathos as of triumph. 

In this place were displayed qualities of character of no 
common sort. We can well understand the passionate out- 
burst which impelled the untrained farmers at Lexington and 
Concord to assail the ranks of the disciplined British regulars. 
We can understand the desperate bravery exhibited by the 
patriot armies at the storming of Stony Point and at King's 




Hon. Augustus F. Moulton 



Maine at Valley Forge 7 

Mountain. We can understand the reckless contempt for death 
with which the sailors under Paul Jones lashed their sinking 
ship to her antagonist and wrenched victory from overwhelm- 
ing defeat. But it is more difficult to comprehend that higher 
type of courage which, amid surroundings that seemed to 
afford scarcely a ray of hope, enabled the soldiers of Wash- 
ington with unwavering fortitude and patient endurance to 
combat poverty, suffering and hunger during the long months 
of the terrible winter at Valley Forge. 

To this place Maine brings her separate tribute. She was 
not, as a distinct and independent colony, one of the old 
thirteen that composed the number of original States. Never- 
theless she claims that, although long acting jointly with and 
as a part of Massachusetts, she had all the time an identity of 
her own. She was known always as the Province of Maine, 
and her children, proudly claiming her reluctant soil and 
rocky shores as their heritage, did their duty here and else- 
where as sons of Maine in the days that tried men's souls. 

Maine began her colonial career upon an independent 
basis. In 1604, three years before the settlement of Virginia, 
the French established themselves upon the Island of St Croix, 
and traces of that occupation may still be seen. In 1607, 
thirteen years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, Captain 
George Popham built his fort and with a hundred men made 
his settlement at the mouth of the Kennebec. That this, 
although temporary, was actual settlement and occupation was 
claimed by England and admitted by France, and as such it 
appears in the treaty as the basis of the English title to New 
England. When the Puritans came to Massachusetts Bay in 
1630, they found Maine already existing as a separate colony 
with embryo settlements established along her coast. In the 
years which followed, Maine, though sparsely settled and 
inferior in strength, was continually an object of dread to 
Massachusetts. It was founded as a royalist province, and for 
years it was the openly-expressed purpose of King Charles to 
make it the seat of his authority. In 1635 the commission 



8 Maine at Valley Forge 

was actually drawn up which made its proprietor, Sir 
Ferdinando Gorges, governor general of all New England. 
Two years later it was the report that Gorges was coming with 
a thousand soldiers to assume his office that caused train bands 
to be organized and the bonfire to be made ready in Boston 
which gave to Beacon Hill its name. In 1639 the Palatinate 
of Maine received its royal charter with right to maintain a 
standing army and with Gorgeana, now York Beach, as its 
capital city. There can be little doubt that the meeting of the 
Long Parliament in 1640, and the Protectorate of Oliver 
Cromwell which followed, alone saved republican Massachusetts 
from the domination of royalistic Maine. Massachusetts long 
sought to get control of the northern province because she 
feared the hostile influences which centered there. In the 
early years Maine was to Massachusetts what Carthage was to 
Rome. The Puritan colony attempted to include its territory 
within her limits by forced construction of her charter, but 
was frustrated by the courts. Under the friendly influences of 
the Puritan Commonwealth in England, reinforced by the press- 
ing need of assistance caused by Indian hostilities, she took 
possession of Maine with the strong hand, and held it by 
benevolent assimilation. She bought the province from the 
heir of Ferdinando Gorges, but the purchase was of doubtful 
validity. Finally, after two generations of independence, actual 
and nominal, "the Province of Maine" was in 1692, by the 
charter from William and Mary, included by that name in the 
limits of Massachusetts. Through all the years that followed 
and during the Revolutionary War Massachusetts and Maine, 
separated by the intervening colony of New Hampshire, were, 
though harmonious and united in a legislative way, neverthe- 
less each distinctive like England and Scotland. 

In proportion to her population Maine was largely repre- 
sented at Valley Forge. The army of Washington that went 
into winter quarters there numbered about eleven thousand. 
In the number were eleven regiments from Massachusetts. 
The method which prevailed at the beginning of the war, of 



Maine at Valley Forge 9 

having each regiment composed of members from the same 
locality had been changed and the roster of these regiments 
shows that all of them had men from Maine. Colonel 
Benjamin Tapper's regiment, the nth Massachusetts, had four 
of its eight companies almost exclusively of Maine men. The 
1 2th Massachusetts, commanded by Colonel Samuel Brewer, 
was composed largely of recruits from the Pine Tree province. 
The loth Massachusetts, Colonel Thomas Marshall, and the 
14th, Colonel Gamaliel Bradford, also had membership of men 
from our section. These four regiments were in the brigade 
of General John Paterson at Valley Forge, and the monument 
which we commemorate to-day is erected upon their camping 
ground. 

Part of the statistical figures which I give were furnished 
by Mr. Nathan Goold, librarian of the Maine Historical Society. 
From names found on detached and scattered muster rolls and 
reports which he has examined, and from other sources, it 
appears certain that there were in General Paterson's Brigade, 
exclusive of those in other commands, something over five 
hundred Maine men. 

Rev. Henry S. Burrage, D. D., the State historian, has 
also obtained from the muster rolls in the State House at 
Boston a list which, after eliminating those who had for various 
causes fallen out before going to Valley Forge, gives numbers 
as follows : 



Regiment of Colonel Tupper, 
" Brewer, 


17 

14 


officers, 


,253 privates 
215 






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Wigglesworth, 
Vose, 


9 
7 


<< 


138 
128 


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Bailey, 

Jackson, 

Marshall, 


3 

2 


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65 
56 
21 








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Bradford, 


I 


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25 


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Wesson, 


2 


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18 


li 








Bigelow, 
Shepard, 


I 





28 
5 


K 



Total, 56 952 



lo Maine at Valley Forge 

There are upon the lists many names where the residence 
is not given, so that it may safely be assumed that the above 
total of one thousand and eight does not include all of the 
Maine men, and that the whole number was nearly or quite 
eleven hundred, or about one-tenth part of the entire Conti- 
nental army there. 

It is not necessary to relate at length the train of circum- 
stances which made it advisable and necessary for the army of 
Washington to go into winter quarters in a region so bleak and 
inhospitable. The settlers upon the American continent, 
isolated and neglected, had been trained in self reliance and in 
devotion to liberty. Theirs had been a peaceful settlement 
and their supreme desire was to establish government by the 
people, but they resented the encroachments of the Mother 
Country and responded with alacrity to the call to arms. At 
Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill they learned to their own 
surprise and to the astonishment of the world that they were a 
match for the invincible regulars of Great Britain. They drove 
the British out of Boston. Then they declared the independ- 
ence of the colonies. In their enthusiasm they felt that the 
contest was won. But is was not long before there came a 
period of reverses. The royal troops arrived in force. New 
York was taken by the enemy and made their base operations. 
The patriot forts were captured and Lord Howe controlled the 
Hudson. Washington with inferior forces, poorly armed and 
ill equipped, defended the Jerseys with consummate skill, but 
the British, though baffled and delayed, made steady progress. 
Slowly and unwillingly the patriot forces were compelled to 
yield point after point, and the notable retreat across New 
Jersey was made under circumstances of the greatest depres- 
sion. The people there lost heart and began to make terms 
with the enemy. Washington alone did not despair, and 
closed the campaign of 1776 by his brilliant stroke of crossing 
the Delaware in the face of storms and floating ice and 
winning decisive and overwhelming victories at Trenton and 
Princeton. 



Maine at Valley Forge li 

Again hope revived, and with the coming of Lafayette and 
the expectation of aid from France, the provincial forces 
raUied anew for the campaign of 1777. Burgoyne came down 
from the north, and Washington with the instinct of a great 
soldier threatened New York and kept Howe back so that he 
could not carry out his part of the plan of invasion. The 
colonials with a grand rally defeated Burgoyne and captured 
his whole army at Saratoga. Once more hope was effulgent 
and exultation took the place of despair. But most of the 
leading men in the Congress of the new Confederation had 
been called to other fields of action. Discordant and power- 
less except for mischief, it assumed to dictate everything. 
Inharmonious counsels prevailed. Personal jealousies and the 
ambition of selfish aspirants interfered with the best consid- 
ered plans. Try on rioted along the coast of Connecticut. 
Washington, with difficulty keeping his ragged Conti- 
nentals together, fought, feinted, attacked and retreated. 
Howe's advance upon Philadelphia was begun as a triumphal 
march, but he found it a difficult compaign. Washington 
threw himself across the British advance and gave them a 
serious check at the Brandywine. 

It was the last of September when Howe reached Phila- 
delphia and Congress was forced to leave the place. Once 
more Washington made an attack at Germantown which,^ 
although unsuccessful, drew expressions of admiration from 
Frederick the Great. With the help of the navy, Howe 
reduced the forts on the Delaware, while the Americans 
opposed him step by step. Over at Edge Hill he took the 
offensive, but met with a decisive repulse and then went into 
winter quarters in what was the most opulent city in America. 
Washington, hindered, interfered with and overruled, had done 
all that it was possible to accomplish. The most surprising 
feat of all was that he had succeeded in keeping his ill-fed and 
poorly-equipped army together. 

In all these campaigns the men from Maine had borne an 
active part. During the Revolutionary War one-ninth part of 



12 Maine at Valley Forge 

the soldiers of the Massachusetts hne came from the Province 
of Maine. Our province furnished from first to last, for land 
and naval forces, more than six thousand men, not counting 
reenlistments. The capture of the Margaretta at Machias was 
the first naval battle of the Revolution. Maine men were at 
Ticonderoga in 1777 and at the battles of Stillwater and 
Saratoga. They were present at the surrender of Burgoyne, 
and fought at Monmouth and on the Delaware. Throughout 
the war they had a prominent part. At the siege of Boston, it 
is said, nearly every able-bodied man in western Maine was 
present. An old letter in the Massachusetts archives states 
that during the siege, when an urgent call was made for 
additional volunteers, they got the reply from Falmouth, now 
Portland : " Every one who can leave home is gone or going 
to Cambridge. They must draw upon this part of the province 
for women instead of men, and for knives and forks instead 
of arms." 

After the time of the conspiracy known as the Conway 
Cabal, it was required that the officers should renew their oath 
of allegiance, and on a partial list in one of the departments in 
Washington are found the names of twenty-two Maine officers 
who did so at Valley Forge. 

Old traditions are still repeated of the sufferings and 
hardships of that terrible winter. Governor John A. Andrew 
of Massachusetts, in an address delivered in his native town, 
Windham, Me., in 1862, told of the stories he there heard in 
his boyhood days, and that the veterans, Josiah Chute and 
John Swett, of Captain May berry's company, used to say that 
in their company during that time of frost and snow there were 
only two men who had shoes. In a report made by Colonel 
Tupper to the Massachusetts Legislature at the time, concern- 
ing his regiment, the nth, which had in it the largest 
proportion of our men, he said : " I wish it was in my power 
to picture to both Houses the extreme suffering of the poor 
unhappy soldiers from want of clothing, etc. I am sure it 
would move a heart of steel." 



Maine at Valley Forge 13 

The campaign for the year 1777 had ended in gloom and 
despondency. The intrepid commander chose for his winter 
quarters the bleak and barren "waste at Valley Forge. Though 
desolate and uncomfortable, it was nevertheless, as it after- 
wards appeared, a splendid strategic position. It could be 
easily defended and was within striking distance of Phila- 
delphia, the Brandywine and the Delaware. From that point 
he could constantly harrass the British if only the army could 
be made effective. December 11, 1777, eleven thousand 
heroes, of a stamp that Sparta might have envied, occupied the 
place and began to erect mud huts and log cabins for their 
winter home. 

The country was despondent and exhausted. It was felt 
that the brilliant flash of light at Saratoga had only for the 
moment illumined the darkness of the situation. Even the great 
Virginian whom they trusted had, as it seemed, with the 
utmost of exertion, accomplished only defeat. What use could 
there be in contending longer with the mightiest nation in the 
world that had scarcely begun to display its powers } 

It was a winter of unusual severity, and the wonder grows 
that the army could have been kept together for a march to its 
camping ground. The blood tracks in the snow, of which we 
have heard, is a tale of actual fact, for the soldiers were almost 
destitute of shoes. An attack upon Howe's army at Phila- 
delphia was prevented by want of rations. ( Their fuel was the 
green trees of the surrounding forest. Oivthe twenty-third of 
December, Washington informed Congress that he had two 
thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight men " unfit for duty 
because they are barefoot and otherwise naked," and that " for 
want of blankets many were fain to sit lip all night by the 
fires instead of taking comfortable rest.^jy Later, February 16, 
1778, Washington wrote to Governor George Clinton: "For 
some days past there has been little less than famine in camp. 
A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh 
and the rest three or four days. Naked and starving as they 
are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and 



14 Maine at Valley Forge 

fidelity of the soldiers." At times scarcely a fifth part of the 
men were capable of bearing arms, and with an enormous sick 
list the hospital accommodations were hardly worth the name. 

The Congress, no longer having its great and patriotic 
leaders, was contemptuously described as " a stable of stupid 
cattle." It was constantly meddling with the military and 
dictating the appointment of officers. The real cause of the 
demoralization of the commissary department was due to this 
fact. Like the rest, Congress was despondent and captious. 
In addition to the other troubles in the camp, there was 
organized the celebrated Conway Cabal, which attempted to 
displace Washington and reorganize the army with Gates as 
chief. Insults were deliberately heaped upon the commanding 
general in the hope that he would thus be induced to resign. 

This is but a faint and general picture of the situation 
within the lines, as slowly days succeeded days during that 
desolate winter. It was one long test of endurance. It 
could have been only an aggravation of the sufferings of these 
heroic men to know, as they must have known, that in great 
part their privations were altogether unnecessary and were due 
to discord and incompetency in the commissary department. 
Quantities of clothing and supplies sent them by their devoted 
compatriots were never delivered. Twenty -four miles away, in 
Philadelphia, they knew the British army of General Howe 
were passing their time in luxury and riotous dissipation, and 
all the time the most flattering inducements and substantial 
promises of reward were held out to any of the Americans who 
would abandon the patriot cause. Yet upon the muster rolls of 
Maine men that we have, although the death list is long, it is to 
their credit that scarcely any desertions are noted. 

This winter at Valley Forge was the midnight of the 
Revolution. We marvel that an army so treated, and subject 
to such conditions, did not break up and disband. It is now 
apparent that if they had done so, it must inevitably have 
made an end of the struggle for independence. 

Looking back upon that picture as it stands out against 



Maine at Valley Forge 15 

the background of the past, there rises from every point of 
view, like Atlas supporting the heavens, the one commanding 
figure of Washington. Never for a moment during those 
months of suspense, when to falter was to be lost, was there any 
apparent diminution of his sublime faith and courage. The 
fate of the new nation was in his hands and he knew it. He 
shared every hardship of the camp. He revived the drooping 
courage of the disheartened officers and soldiers alike. He 
repelled the political attacks with statements of plain truth and 
fact. With ceaseless activity, as shown by his correspondence, 
he counselled with the Congress and kept in touch with the 
whole country. 

There were stout-hearted men in the Congress, too, as is 
shown by the story of William Duer of New York, one of its 
members, who when on his death-bed heard that the sustaining 
of Washington and his policies depended upon a single vote 
and demanded that he be carried in a litter to Philadelphia to 
ensure a majority. Robert Morris, also, the Pennsylvania 
financier, was in times of emergency a helper who never failed. 

This was the situation of those who were holding the fort 
from within. But they had accomplished more than they them- 
selves realized. Although they little knew it, the spectacle of 
Continental heroism had worked wonders without. 

The world at large, which knew little of the privations and 
sufferings of the colonies, saw with surprise that England, 
which had lately wrested from France all of her North Ameri- 
can possessions, which had just won a new empire in India and 
had chastised Spain and had no superior among the powers of 
the earth, was completely held at bay by these rebellious 
provincials. After nearly three years of effort she had, as it 
seemed, accomplished almost nothing. She held only the 
ground upon which her armies were encamped. She had lost 
her hold upon New England. The grand army of Burgoyne 
had been captured entire. The new flag flew in defiance over 
the whole south, and although the nominal capital had fallen, 
the struggle for its occupation had shown that the rebels had a 



l6 Maine at Valley Forge 

great commander, and the witty Franklin in Paris parried the 
blow by saying " Howe had not in fact captured Philadelphia 
but Philadelphia had captured Howe." 

France, eager for revenge, felt towards England as she has 
felt towards Germany since the Franco-Prussian war. In the 
British Parliament the Whigs were demanding with angry 
insistence that the war should stop, and declared that the 
ancient liberties of England were being defended by the rebels 
in America. Before the winter was over indications began to 
appear to those who watched and waited at Valley Forge that 
the morning light was breaking. Baron Steuben, who had 
served on the staff of Frederick the Great in the Seven Years 
War, a bluff and vigorous martinet, came as a volunteer to 
their encampment and began to drill the ragged troops in 
European tactics. Early in March the wan veterans, who 
amid their forlorn surroundings were preparing for the next 
campaign, heard the glorious news that on the sixth day of 
February a treaty had been signed by which France recog- 
nized the independence of the United States and agreed to 
assist them with armed support on land and sea. Spain, too, 
was said to be ready to enter into the alliance, and the great 
Frederick had stopped the enlistment of mercenary troops for 
the English and publicly opened his ports to American cruisers. 

By the time that spring had fully come the Congressional 
cabal had broken up in disgrace. General Nathaniel Greene 
had been put in charge of the quartermaster's department. 
Steuben, trained in the German school, was made inspector- 
general. Under General Henry Knox the artillery arm had 
become efficient. When the ground was in condition for 
military operations supplies had come, the soldiers were well 
trained and, too marvelous to relate if it were not an actual 
fact, Washington had under his command the best disciplined 
army that the country had yet seen. Men began to realize 
that it was his sagacity and patriotism that had saved the 
patriot cause and to regard him as the living symbol of the 
union of the States. Sheer pluck and unconquerable per- 



Maine at Valley Forge 17 

sistency had kept hope alive and set patriotism again upon 
its feet. 

The military value of Valley Forge was soon apparent. 
General Howe found that he must attack the Americans in 
their stronghold or abandon Philadelphia. He chose the latter 
alternative, and on the eighteenth of June, 1778, the exultant 
Americans marched into the city. They were now the 
aggressors. Nine days later they assailed the retreating 
British at Monmouth and the invading army was driven back to 
its defensive position in New York. 

The war for independence was far from being over. Even 
with the great assistance of France, three more weary years of 
endeavor were still to come before the end should appear. 
But the supreme crisis had been passed in safety, and the final 
victory in arms at Yorktown was made possible by the even 
greater heroism and more steadfast valor of those who bore 
without faltering the test of physical endurance and mental 
strain in the dreary and disheartening winter at Valley Forge. 

The patriotic citizens at Pennsylvania, who have caused to 
be set apart as a public park the region where so much was 
done and suffered when in stress and effort the foundations of 
the Nation were being laid, have done a most worthy thing, not 
only for their own noble State but for the whole country as 
well. 

In a free land like ours the government and its institutions 
rest upon the voluntary support of its citizens. Whatever 
cultivates the virtue of patriotism and establishes high ideals 
is of both moral and material value. In the events which make 
the name of this locality everywhere known, Maine with proud 
humility claims a part. She tenders to-day this modest monu- 
mental tribute to the memory of her sons, who counted not 
their lives dear unto themselves if only they might obtain for 
those of their time and for their posterity a government under 
which every one might enjoy the fruits of his own labor and 
work out his own destiny. Through us she also extends her 
thanks and expresses her appreciation to the great Common- 



1 8 Maine at Valley Forge 

wealth which has estabhshed this Park that it may forever 
teach the lesson that great results come only through self- 
sacrificing effort and, like the old bell in her Independence 
Hall, with its historic motto, may always "Proclaim liberty 
throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof." 

At the close of his oration Mr. Moulton read the following 

poem, prepared for the occasion by Mrs. Elisabeth Pullen 

of Portland : 

AT VALLEY FORGE. 

Winter declared the truce ; from out the north, 

The wind came as a herald sent to bear 
The white flag of the snowfall, crying forth 

His message resonant upon the air ; 

And war was halted in its grim affair. 

Yet subtle foes drew near the lonely place, 
Beleaguering the camp among the hills ; 

Hunger and cold and death, men had to face, 
And waning hope that with its wasting ills 
The measure of all misery fulfils. 

Neglected and misprized, how were they sure 

Of glorious ending to the weary test. 
Or of reward for them who should endure 

The night-watch, nor relax their strength in rest, 

Patient and firm at Liberty's behest } 

The mighty chieftain with paternal hand 
Held discontent in leash, nor was dismayed ; 

Himself the exemplar of his faithful band 
Through gloomy hours when by cabals betrayed 
The assembly of the States their help delayed. 

Dark is the hour that presages the day, 
Long is the winter night before the sun 

Turns in his heaven, and with a kindling ray 
The promise of the springtime is begun 
And golden fires along the horizon run. 




Hon. William T. Cobb 



Maine at Valley Forge 19 

So in the east appeared a friendly light ; 

Liberty's sunrise flamed across the sea, 
Reviving patriot hearts to meet the fight, 

Indomitable, and win their land to be 

The home forever of a people free ! 

The Maine marker was then presented to the Valley 
Forge Park Commission. In making the presentation, Hon. 
William T. Cobb, Governor of Maine, said: 

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : The whole country 
owes a debt of gratitude to the men and women who, justly 
proud of their ancestry, have done so much to perpetuate the 
deeds and memories of those who particpated in the struggle 
for independence and constitutional liberty in America. 

A definite motive inspired the great Commonwealth upon 
whose soil we stand to-day, and whose guests in a sense we are, 
to set aside, to care for and to consecrate forever to a reverent 
patriotism this hallowed and historic ground. A definite motive 
prompted Maine to heed the request of the Society of the Sons 
of the American Revolution of that State, and to cause to be 
erected here a monument to commemorate the faithfulness and 
valor of the men who, living then in what is now Maine, left 
their homes and bore their share of the hardships of that 
memorable winter at Valley Forge. The motive in each case 
was the same and is a thankful appreciation of the sacrifices 
made for country and for liberty. So long as it exists and 
finds its sincere expression in acts and ways like these, so long 
will the fires of patriotism illumine the path to true national 
grandeur and the permanency of our institutions be assured. 

It has often been the fate of one generation to struggle, to 
suffer, even to die, for the triumph of a righteous principle ; 
but their memory is indeed blessed if a calmer future shall 
vindicate their cause, and if to their own successors shall come 
the full enjoyment of the conditions established by that 
sacrifice. 



20 Maine at Valley Forge 

With this lesson in our hearts, we are here to pay our 
tribute of respect and veneration to all those who made the 
glories of this spot immortal. 

In behalf of the State of Maine, I present to you, sir, as 
the President of the Valley Forge Park Commission, this 
memorial. It is neither magnificent in proportion nor ornate in 
design, but with it none the less are brought the sentiments of 
a State proud of her history and traditions, grateful to the men 
who made and preserved them, and of a people to whose 
patriotism and loyalty no appeal has yet been made in vain. 

At the close of the Governor's address, the marker was 
unveiled by General Selden Connor and Rev. Henry S. 
Burrage, D. D. It stands on a concrete foundation, is six feet 
high, five feet wide, four feet deep at the base, and three and a 
half feet deep at the top, the front slanting from the base to 
the top six inches. The two laurel wreaths, at the base of the 
marker as seen in the frontispiece, were an expression on the 
part of the Commission of their interest in the unveiling of 
the Maine memorial. 

Colonel W. H. Sayen, president of the Valley Forge Park 
Commission, responded to Governor Cobb's address as follows : 

Governor Cobb and fellow citizens of the great State of 
Maine : Allow me to congratulate you on this beautiful work 
which you have erected to the memory of your heroic 
ancestors. 

I call them heroes because of their bravery and endurance. 
Any man can fight, but not every man can endure. As you 
gaze upon these beautiful hills and valleys, still clothed with 
the verdure of summer, you who live in your magnificent homes 
of modern civilization, palaces with every comfort, cannot even 
imagine the sufferings of these patriots under the terrible 
winter of 1777-8. Nothing of your comforts was known to 
them. Even the use of anaesthetics was undiscovered and they 



Maine at Valley Forge 21 

had to submit to the terrible torture of the tourniquet and 
agonies of the surgeon's saw without a murmur. 

Governor of Maine and citizens thereof : in the name of all 
the citizens of these United States, and especially in the name 
of the great State of Pennsylvania, whose munificence has 
enabled us to establish this magnificent park, I accept this 
beautiful tribute to the bravery and endurance of your noble 
ancestors. 

President Fellows then introduced ex-Governor Samuel 
W. Pennypacker, who spoke as follows : 

Although born not more than four miles from this place, 
the first time I ever saw the hills of Valley Forge was in the 
company of a man from Maine, Neal Dow, who was responsible 
for some of the legislation which has characterized your State 
and who was then paying a visit to my father. It was over 
fifty years ago, and I was about ten years of age. Even at that 
early time efforts were being made for the preservation of 
these intrenchments ; and they together, Neal Dow and my 
father, came to view the camp, taking me along with them. 
Mr. Dow wrote a letter to a Boston newspaper under the date 
of October lo, 1853, in which he said: "Upon the parapet of 
this redoubt, a little son of my friend picked up, directly at my 
feet, and presented to me an Indian arrowhead of white quartz, 
of perfect form and proportions. It is about an inch and a half 
long and three-fourths of and inch wide at the broadest part. 
There were no Indians at Valley Forge with Washington. If 
there had been any they would have been armed with rifles or 
muskets, and not with bows and arrows. This arrowhead, 
therefore, is a relic of far distant times, was dropped upon the 
earth and thrown up by the spade of the builders of these 
works, and the rains of many years exposed it to view." I was 
that "little son," and Neal Dow never forgot me. Whenever 
thereafter he wrote letters to my father, he always sent his 
regards to "little Tommy," the name alone and not the event 
having escaped him. 



22 Maine at Valley Forge 

My visit to Valley Forge to-day is in the company of men 
and women from Maine. It is with great pleasure that upon 
this auspicious occasion I have met your distinguished governor 
and the worthy persons who have attended him hither. The 
relations which have existed between the people of Maine and 
those of Pennsylvania have ever been close, and sometimes 
important. When, many years ago, as the old political song 
tells us, 

Maine went Hell bent 
For Governor Kent, 
if it cannot be truthfully said that Pennsylvania followed, she 
nevertheless moved in precisely the same direction. Nawhere 
in the country were there greater regard and esteem felt for 
Tom Reed than along the banks of the Schuylkill and the 
Susquehanna. When Pennsylvania was generous enough to 
surrender one of the greatest of the statesmen which she and 
the nation has ever produced, she sent James G. Blaine to the 
State of Maine, to represent your people as well as her own in 
national and cosmopolitan affairs. 

The camp ground of Valley Forge, better than any battle 
field, represents those qualities of persistence and endurance 
under hardship and disaster, which made the War of the 
Revolution successful. With respect to this camp, the Com- 
monwealth of Pennsylvania, ever strong and ever true, has, upon 
every other occasion, both past and present, arisen to the full 
performance of her duty. She has established and maintained 
this park, and intends to maintain it for all time to come, in no 
narrow spirit, but as an object lesson of patriotism for all of the 
people of all of the United States, a reminder of the past and a 
harbinger of the future. To me it is exceedingly gratifying, 
as I am sure it is to you, that the first markers erected upon 
these hallowed grounds, to designate the lines occupied by the 
troops in the winter of 1777 and 1778, are those of Maine and 
Pennsylvania. 

President Fellows announced, as the last speaker, Colonel 
Seth C. Gordon, M. D., of Portland, who said : 



Maine at Valley Forge 23 

Mr. Chairman and members of the Valley Forge Park 
Commission : As a citizen of Maine I most cheerfully join 
with you in paying a just tribute to the officers and soldiers 
from Maine, for the heoric fortitude and patient endurance 
displayed during the terrible winter of 1 777-1 778. The most 
eloquent language fails to describe, in the smallest degree, the 
bodily and mental suffering of that little band of loyal men. I 
congratulate you who have been most active and earnest in 
placing this beautiful marker in this conspicuous position, as 
a memorial from the sons and daughters of Maine to those 
heroes whose memory all so fondly cherish. Honor, fame and 
glory have always clustered around the heads of the rank and 
file of any successful army throughout the world. The men 
who have led the armies, and the soldiers who have fought 
the battles, have been the recipients of this honor, fame and 
glory. This is right — just as it should be. So long as wars 
shall exist these must meet the foes in battle array, facing 
death from the bullet and shell. Such heroism we all salute 
and to which we are all ready to accede honor and glory. To 
Washington and his loyal soldiers at Valley Forge we accord 
all admiration for the patience and wisdom that so strongly 
characterized them. 

But the battles that were fought during that long, cold 
winter were not with shot and shell. The foes they met were 
hunger, cold, disease and death. The heroes of this fight were 
the surgeons of the Continental Army. They bravely met 
and, so far as lay in their power, conquered pestilence and 
averted death. Two thousand cases of small pox alone were 
among the many foes that the medical department contended 
with. Heroes no less deserving of honor, glory and fame, in 
this department, stood shoulder to shoulder with Washington 
and his officers and soldiers in meeting and conquering the 
only enemy that attacked Valley Forge during the entire 
period of the encampment. History fails to record even the 
names of these heroes, or if perchance their names are 
recorded, they have passed into oblivion. While we would not 



24 Maine at Valley Forge 

detract from the rank and file, we know that to the army surgeon 
should be accorded an equal meed of praise. To him all looked 
for aid and comfort and looked not in vain. I therefore take 
this occasion to bespeak for my own profession the just 
recognition of the valuable services rendered the army under 
Washington at Valley Forge. 

The impressive service was closed with the singing of " My 
Country, 'tis of Thee," in which the entire assembly joined. 

Mr. William H. Rau, Chestnut and Eighteenth Streets, 
Philadelphia, then took the excellent photographs of the 
marker and of the assembly, used in illustrating this report of 
the proceedings. 

Governor Cobb and his staff, with the other guests of the 
day, including Major-General John R. Brooke, U. S. A., and 
Major-General Henry C. Merriam, U. S. A., were then taken 
to the pre-Revolutionary inn, The King of Prussia, where an 
excellent lunch was served. The members of the Valley 
Forge Park Commission made this the occasion of a most 
delightful social intermingling. At its close the guests from 
Maine joined heartily in three cheers for the Commission, and 
these were as heartily returned by the members of the Com- 
mission. 

A pleasant three-mile drive took the party to Norristown, 
whence the special car of the morning brought the company 
back to Philadelphia. 

Everything was done by the Valley Forge Park Commis- 
sion to make the day a memorable one ; but especial mention 
should be made of the secretary of the Commission, Colonel 
A. H. Bowen, whose services in connection with the placing of 
the marker, as well as in connection with the celebration 
itself, were painstaking and unremitting. 



MAINE SOLDIERS AT VALLEY FORGE 

Men from what is now the State of Maine whose names 
appear on company returns of Massachusetts hne regiments 
serving at Valley Forge in the winter i? 77-^77^ • 

COI.ONEL SAMUEI. BREWER'S REGIMENT. 

CAPTAIN JOHN CHADWICK'S COMPANV. 

Sergeants. 
Asa Hutchins, Arundel, Taken prisoner July 7, 1777. 

Daniel How, " Sick at Tyringham. 

Privates. 
Pelatiah Allen, Harpswell, On furlough, also reported deserted 

February 13, 1777. 

Poster Bestor, Brunswick. 

Gershom Boston, Wells, Not joined. 

Nathaniel Day, " Deserted December 11, 1 779 (?) 

CAPTAIN SILAS BURBANK'S COMPANY. 

Capiat fi. 

Silas Burbank, Scarborough, On furlough. 

LieulenafiL 

William Frost, Kittery. 

Second Lieutenant. 
James Means, Falmouth. 

Ensign. 
Adriel Warren, Berwick. 

Sergeants. 

William Cole, Kittery. 

Richard Hines, Gorham, On furlough. 



26 



Maine at Valley Forge 



Sergeants (^continued). 



Daniel Parcher, 


Scarborough. 




Pelatiah McDanniel 






or McDonnell, 


Gorham. 

Corporals. 




John Murcli, 


Gorham. 




John Carll (or Car- 






rell), 


Scarborough. 




James Jackson, 


Cape Elizabeth. 


Andrew Tyler, 


Scarborough. 
Fifer. 




Eleazar Burbank, 


Scarborough, 
Privates. 


On furlough. 


Benjamin Beels, 


Kittery. 




Henry Beels, 


" 




Lemuel Smith, 


(< 




Wm. Dixon, 


<( 


On furlough. 


Daniel McVaughan, 


(( 




Reuben Frost, 


<( 




Nathaniel Frost, 


(( 


On command with ye Majr. 


Azariah Libbey, 


<( 




James Smart, 


(< 




John Patch, 


<( 




Robert Patch, 


(< 




Samuel Patch, 


(< 




Jonathan Patch, 


(( 




James Witham, 


(( 




Jedidiah Witham, 


(( 




John Jordan, 


(( 




Charles Sargant, 


York. 




Daniel Grant, 


Berwick, 


Turned over to the Invalid 
Corps, Boston. 


Samuel Dyer, 


" 


On furlough. 


John Bnrnal, 


Gorham. 




Josiah Brackitt, 


Falmouth. 





Samuel Carll or 

Carel, Carroll, 
Ebenezar Carll or 

Carel, Carroll, 
Jonathan Douty, 
Benjamin Dyer, 
Jonathan Fields, 
Vincent Picket, 
Nathaniel Picket, 
Zechariah Poss, 
Benjamin Green, 
Charles Hall, 
Thomas Harmon, 
James 'Lta.ry, 
Abner McDanniel 

or McDonell, 
John Mitchell, 
Moses Merrill, 
David Burbank, 
Josiah Peebody, 
Simeon Sanbourn, 
Ebenezer Seavey, 
David Webb, 
Joseph Green, 
John Eastman, 
Wm. Witemore or 

Whitmore, 
Abraham York, 
Jacob Smith, 
Solomon Green, 
Daniel Green, 
Job Hall, 
Jonathan Thorn - 

dick. 



Maine at Valley Forge 27 

Privates {continued). 

Scarborough, Left at Albany sick. 



Palmouth, Sick, absent. 

Cape Elizabeth. 
Scarborough, Sick, absent. 
Cape Elizabeth. 

" On furlough. 

Scarborough. 
Gorham. 
Pearsontown. 
Scarborough. 
Falmouth. 

Gorham. 

Wells, On furlough. 

North Yarmouth. 

Scarborough, On furlough. 

Gorham. 

Pearson town. 

Scarborough, On furlough. 

Gorham, Left sick at Albany. 

Falmouth, On furlough. 

Pepperellborough. 

Gorham, Discharged. 

Pearsontown , Missing since 7th July [1777]. 
Kittery, Do 

Do 

Do 

Windham, Do 



Cape Elizabeth, Deserted. 



28 



Maine at Valley Forge 



Not given. 
Timothy Kennard, Kittery. 

James Fernald, " 

Michael Brawn, " 

Shim Emery, " 

Seth Hammond, " Sick, absent. 

CAPTAIN EI/ISHA BREWER'S COMPANY. 

Privates. 
David Hatch, Gorham. 

Enoch Wissel, " 

CAPTAIN JOSIAH JENKINS' COMPANY, 

Captain. 
Josiah Jenkins, Gorham, On furlough. 

Lieutenant. 
David Watts, Gorham, 

Second Lieutenant. 
Benjamin Thompson, Brunswick, Sick, absent. 

Sergeants. 
Gorham. 



Samuel Jenkins, 
Elijah Davis, 
Ebenezer Morton, 

John Greely, 
John Mirick, 
Benjamin Nason, 

• Joshua Wescot, 

Nathan Bangs, 
Amos Brown, 
John Foye, 
John Green, 
James Gilkey, 



" On furlough. 

Corporals. 

Gorham, On furlough. 

Kennebeck. 

Arundel. 

Drummer. 
Scarborough, On furlough. 

Privates. 
Gorham. 



Sick, absent of his wound. 



Maine at Valley Forge 



29 





Privates {continued'). 


Ichabod Hunt, 


Gorham. 




John Knights, 






E)benezer Morton, Jr. 






Joseph McLallen, 






Bbenez. Phinney, 




Sick, absent of his wound 


Moses Poland, 




On furlough. 


Benja. Rollf, 






John Astin 






or Austin, 


Brunswick. 




John Arno, 


Georgetown. 




Paul Lowell, 


<< 




Seth Hinkley, 


<< 




Joseph Sargant, 


" 


Sick, absent of his wound 


John Cool, 


Kennebeck. 




David Emery, 


" 




Nathan Emery, 


i< 




William Kendal, 


f( 




Frederick Peckin, 


<( 




Solomon Spencer, 


(< 




Daniel Toward, 


(( 




Thomas Frank, 


Falmouth. 




James Wagg, 


(( 




Peter Biter, 


<< 




Jonathan Witney, 


Buckston. 




Abel Whitney, 


Gorham, 


Discharged. 


Joshua Davis, 


" 


Do. 


Richard Mitchell, 


Arundel, 


Deserted. 



James Donnell, 
Henry Sewall, 
Timothy Remick, 



CAPTAIN JAMES DONNEIvIv'S COMPANY. 

Captain. 
York, On furlough. 

First Lieutenant. 
York. 

Second Lieutenant. 
Kittery, On furlough. 



30 



Maine at Valley Forge 



Bbenezer Storer, 

Jonathan Donnell, 
William Bearing, 
Zachariah Gatchell, 
Jeremiah Bettiss, 

Daniel Colbroth, 
David Rogers, 

John Gibson, 

Benjamin Trafton, 
Thomas Spokesfield, 

Matthias Beal, 
Jonathan Mendum, 

Wyman Bradbury, 
Daniel Bragdon, 
Daniel Brown, 
John Cox, 
Henry Carvel, 
Lemuel Colbroth, 
Ebenezer Cole, 

Loring Cushing, 
William Couch, 
James Dempsey, 
Abraham Dixon, 
Joseph Foster, 
Noah Hurchins, 



Ensign. 
Biddeford. 

Sergeants. 
York. 
Kittery. 
York. 
Biddeford. 

Corporals 
Scarborough. 
Kittery. 

Sergt. Major. 
York, Promoted August lo, 1777 

Corporals. 

York. 
Kittery. 

Drummer. 

York. 

Fifer. 

Kittery. 

Privates. 
Falmouth. 

York, Sick at Albany. 

Sanford, On furlough. 

Kittery. 
Falmouth . 
Scarborough. 
Falmouth, 

(also given No. Yarmouth). 
Falmouth. 
York. 

" On furlough, 

Kittery. 



Maine at Valley Forge 



31 



' 


Privates (^continued). 


Nathl. Hanscom, 


Kittery 




Thomas Harvey, 


" 




Benjamin Jacobs, 


Wells. 




Robey Lydston, 


Kittery. 




Daniel Laller, 


(( 




Joshua McL,ucas, 


York. 




Jotham Milbury, 


Not given. 




John Smart, 


Kittery. 




Moses Stevens, 


Privates. 




Daniel Sargent, 


York. 




James Williamson, 


York. 




Edward Webber, 


Kittery, 


Sick at Pumpton. 


Philip Davis, 


Durham, 


Transfer'd to Capt. Watkins, 


John Trott, 


Kittery, 


Taken by the Civil Mag- 
istrates. 


Philip Canada 






(Kannady), 


Falmouth. 




CAPTAIN NATHAN WATKINS' COMPANY 




Corporal. 




Joseph Blake, 


Scarborough. 

Privates. 




Wright Allen, 


Scarborough, 


Transfer'd from Capt. Jen- 
kin's Company. 


John Butler, 


Georgetown. 




John Blake, 


Scarborough, 


On furlough. 


Samuel Cole, 


North Yarmouth. 




Joseph Lincoln, 


'< 




Moses Twitchel, 


New Boston, 


Taken prisoner July 7 and 
not joined. 


Daniel Preble, 


York, 


Not joined. 


Lemuel Welch, 


North Yarmouth. 





32 



Maine at Valley Forge 



Edward Parkus, 
James Whittum, 
Bickford Dyer, 
James Coolbroth, 
John Patten, 



Privates (^continued). 
Bowdoinham. 
Harp swell. 
Gorham. 



Bowdoinham. 

CAPTAIN DANIEI, MERRILIy'S COMPANY. 

Captain. 

Daniel Merrill, Arundel. 

Lieutenant. 

John Pray, Kittery. 

Second Lieutenant. 
Lemuel Miller, Arundel, On furlough. 

Sergeant. 
Joshua Nason, Arundel, Promoted to Ensn. 

Not given. 
Sandford. 



Levi Hutchings, 
Joseph Hubbard, 
Richard Thompson, 
Edward Lewis, 
John Reed, 
Matthias Murch, 
Jeremiah Jones, 
Nelson Hill, 
Josiah Hunniford, 
Christover Stover, 
Joseph Stout Cooms, 
Salathiel Penney, 
Dependence Day, 
Samuel Goodwin, 
Simeon Hutchings, 
John Dunmark 

Goodwin, 
David Thompson, 



Brunswick. 

Buckston. 

Yarmouth. 

Gorham. 

Gorham. 

Kittery. 

Falmouth. 

Brunswick. 

Wells. 



Arundel. 



Wells, 



Sick in Albany. 



Sick in hospital. 



Maine at Valley Forge 



II 



Noah Taylor, 
Joseph Deneco, 
James Thompson, 
Benja. Miller, 
Richard Thompson, 

Jr., 
Caleb L,assell, 
Willm. Fairfield 
John Fairfield, 
Andrew Brown, 
Ezekiel Hatch, 
Alexander Thompson, 
Joseph Lewis, 
Benja. Lewis, 
John Dorman, 
Enoch Cluf, 
Abraham Lord, 
Daniel Record, 

John Whitney, 



Samuel Hutchings, 



Not given {^continued). 
Wells Sick at Albany. 

" Sick in hospital. 

Arundel. 

" On furlough. 



Gorham. 
Arundel. 



Sick at Albany. 



Gibeons Wakefield, 


Wells, 


Jacob Kimball, 


" 


Timothy Crine, 


Falmouth, 


Paul Giles, 


Sandford, 


Isaac Kimbal, 


Wells, 


Samuel Harriss, 


(1 


Anthony Littlefield, 


(< 


Benja. Rhods, 


Arundel, 



Drummer. 
Falmouth, Promoted to Drum-Major 

Genl. 
Not given. 
Arundel. Discharged 14th June, 1777, 

also given as serving to July, 
9, 1780. 

Do. 
Do. 
Turned over to Captain 
White in Francis' Regiment. 
Discharged January 11, 1778. 
Do. 



Taken prisoner Deer. 27,1777. 



34 



Maine at Valley Forge 



Jacob Merrill, 

John Holmes, 

Toseph. Seave (Seavey) 
Hezekiah Clarinbole, 
Seth Peabody, 



Not given {^continued'). 

Arundel, Time expires ist March prob- 

ably 1778. 
Kittery, Time expires ist May prob- 

ably 1778. 
" Do. 

" Do. 

Do. 



John Stevens, 
Francis Richards, 



Topsfield (also 
given Wells). 

major's company. 
Privates. 
Arundel. 

Falmouth, In service between Oct. i, 

1777 and April i, 1778, but 
company not known. 

COI^ONBL BENJAMIN TUPPBR'S RFGIMFNT. 
L ieutenant- Colonel. 
Noah M. I/ittlefield, Wells. 

Major. 
Willm. I/ithgo, Georgetown, Sick of his wounds at Albany. 

CAPTAIN RICHARD MAYB^RRY'S COMPANY. 

Captain. 
Windham, On furlough. 

Second Lieutenant. 
Gorham. 

Ensign. 
Scarborough. 

Sergeants. 
Cape Elizabeth. 



Richard Mayberry, 



Silas Chadboum, 



Jona. Libby, 



Lemuel Sawyer, 
Tobias Pilsbery, 
Charles Wilson, 
Joab Lfibby, 



Ray mondtown , 
Gorham. 



Sick at Albany. 
Sick, hospital. 



Maine at Valley Forge 



35 



Josiah Chute, 
Elijah Hamblen, 
Amos Allen, 
Nathaniel Lumbard, 

Josiah WoUace, 
William Plummer, 

Ebenezer Barton, 
Joab (also given 
Josiah) Black, 
George Berry, 
Silvanus Brimhall, 
Abraham Briant, 
Benjamin Cresey, 
James Cobb, 
Christopher Dunn, 
Ephaim Dyer, 
John Green, 
William Hunt, 
William Davis, 
John Jordan, 
James Jordan, 
Hezekiah Jordan, 
Edmond Jordan, 
Henry Jackson, 
Caleb Ivumbard, 
Jedidiah Ivumbard, 
Butler Ivumbard, 
Francis Lib by, 
William Mayberry, 
Robert Millions, 
Richard Mayberry, 



Corporals. 
Windham. 

Gorham, Sick at Albany. 

Scarborough, 
Gorham. 

Drummer. 
Cape Elizabeth. 

Fifer. 
Cape Elizabeth. 

Privates. 
Windham, 

Gorham. 

Scarborough. 

Gorham, On command at hospital. 

Cape Elizabeth, Sick in hospital. 

Gorham. 

Cape Elizabeth. 

Gorham. 

Cape Elizabeth. 

Gorham. 

Cape Elizabeth. 

Ray mondtown . 

Cape Elizabeth, Sick at Albany. 

Gorham, On command at Albany. 

" Sick in camp. 

" Sick in country. 

Scarborough. 
Windham. 



Sick at Albany. 



36 



Maine at Valley Forge 



Robert McFarland, 
Jolin Miller, 
George Robinson, 
Chandler Rackley, 

(also given Joseph 
John Swett, 
Joseph Stone, 
Ephraim Sawyer, 
Walter Simon ton, 
John Strout, 
Peter Smith, 
Klisha Small, 
William Sawyer, 
Joseph Thompson, 
William Thompson, 
Jonathan Webster, 
Nathaniel Sawyer, 
David Woodsom, 
Joseph Webber, 
Stephen Tripp, 
Charles Branscom, 
David Guston, 
Nicholas Hughes, 
Robert Jackson, 
Robert Jordan, 
Jesse Whitney, 
Eleazer Chase, 
Hanniel Clark, 

Barthow. Conant, 
John Haskel, 
James Ryan, 
Daniel Small, 



Privates {^continued'). 
Gorham, Sick in hospital. 

Cape Elizabeth. 



Scarborough, 
C. Rackliff) 
Windham. 
Gorham. 
Cape Elizabeth. 



Falmouth. 
Cape Elizabeth. 



Windham, 
Cape Elizabeth. 
Gorham, 
Windham. 
Cape Elizabeth. 

Gorham. 

Windham. 

Falmouth, 



Gorham, 

Windham, 

Falmouth, 



Ivame in camp. 



Sick at Albany. 

Sick in hospital. 
Sick in hospital. 

Sick at Albany. 

Sick at Albany. 

Sick at Albany. 



Taken prisoner July 7, 1777. 

Retaken and gone home. 
i( i< (( 

Taken prisoner July 7, 1777. 
(( (( i( 

Taken prisoner July 7, 1777. 
Retaken and gone home. 



Maine at Valley Forge 



37 



John Thomes, 

Reuben Libby, 
Barthow. Thompson, 



John Nason, 
David Osgood, 



Privates {continued). 
Falmouth, Taken prisoner July 7, 1777. 

Died 23 December, 1777. 
Gorham, Missing since July 7. 

Falmouth, " " " 

CAPTAIN MOSES GREENLEAF'S COMPANY, 

Privates. 
Deer Island. 
Bluehill Bay. 
CAPTAIN BILLY PORTER'S COMPANY. 

Privates. 



Moses Black, 


Penobscot. 


Samuel Covisens, 


<i 


Joseph Freethey 


" 


Daniel Field, 


Buxton. 


John Freeman, 


York. 


John Freeman, Jr., 


(( 


Jacob Reed, 


Penobscot. 


Matthew Toben, 


<( 


George York, 


(( 


John Holden, 


Sheepscutt, Deserted. 


CAPTAIN SAMUEL PAGE'S COMPANY. 




Privates. 


William Boyad, 


Kenebunk. 


Sam'll Bently, 


Casco Bay, Deserted. 


John Hatch, 


Wells, 


Jacobs Settenbeger, 


Georgetown, " 


CAPTAIN 


DANIEL WHEELWRIGHT'S COMPANY, 




Captain. 


Daniel Wheelwright, 


Wells. 




Lieutenants. 


Josiah Bragdon, 


York. 


Josiah Parsons, 


" 



38 



Maine at Valley Forge 



Ensign. 



John Littlefield, 



Wells. 



Sergeants. 



Samuel Wheelwright, 


, Wells. 


Josiah Dorman, 


i« 


William Eaton, 


<( 


Richard Adams, 


York. 




Corporals, 


Daniel Edwards, 


Wells. 


Stephen Johnson, 


Sanford. 


Jotham Baker, 


York. 




Fifer. 


Stephen Kent, 


Sanford. 




Private. 


Walter Abbott, 


Berwick. 


Joseph Abbott, 


(< 


Joseph Adams, 


Wells. 


Jeremiah Banks, 


Kittery. 


Stephen Bridges, 


York. 


John Beal, 


(< 


Richard Black, 


Kittery. 


Nathaniel Davis, 


Wells. 


Moses Drown, 


(( 


Stephen Drown, 


(( 


Joseph Eaton, 


(( 


Abraham Facundus, 


York. 


Dominicus Gray, 


Sanford. 


Peter Grant, 


York, 


Samuel Goodwin or 


Wells, 


Goodale, 




Joshua Hatch, 


(< 


Samuel Jones, 


Kittery. 


Ivazarus Jones, 


Wells. 


Nathan Kimball, 


" 


David Littlefield, 


" 



On furlough. 



Retaken and gone home. 



Died January 25, 1778. 

Sick in General Hospital., 

Albany. 

Retaken and gone home. 



Maine at Valley Forge 



39 



Jotham Littlefield, 
William Linnard, 

(Leonard), 
John Mitchel, 
Gregory Mitchel, 
John Norman, 
Shubel Nason , 
Oliver Plumbley, 
Abraham Pribble, 
Archibald Rutledge, 
Abraham Sawyer, 
John Sutton, 
Edmund Stevens, 
Masters Treadwell, 
Obediah True, 
Jonathan Webber, 
Thomas Wright, 
Joseph Young, 
Ebenezer Young, 
John Webber, 
Hanson L,ibby, 



Privates {continued). 

Wells. 



York, 
York. 



Kittery, 

Wells. 

Sanford. 



On furlough, later reported 
died December 30, 1777. 



Sick in hospital. 

On furlough. 
Sick in hospital. 



Sick at Schenectady. 
Taken prisoner. 



Samuel Thomes, 
Daniel Lunt, 
William Hasty, 
William McKeney, 
Daniel Small, 



York, 

Wells, 

Shrewsbury also 

given " Tanton " on Frenchman's Bay 

CAPTAIN SAMUEI. THOMES' COMPANY. 

Captain. 
Falmouth, On furlough. 

Lieutenant. 
Falmouth, On furlough. 

Second Lieutenant. 
Scarborough. 

Ensign. 
Scarborough. 

Sergeants. 
Cape Elizabeth. 



40 



Maine at Valley Forge 



Hutson Baley, 
7j^.Qh.ax\si)i!L Nowel, 
Joseph McKeney, 

Arthur Bragdon, 
Simeon Libby, 
Samuel Hicks, 

Samuel Robinson, 

Edward Plummer, 

John Bayley, 
George Bowey, 

(Bovey), 
William Bayley, 
Philip Owen, 



Sergeants (^continued). 

Falmouth. 

(( 

Scarborough. 

Corporals. 
Scarborough. 



Anthony Bracket, 
Samuel Bracket, 
Dudley Bradstreet, 
Junior Boston, 
John Cash, 
Reuben Clough, 
Benjamin Cox, 
William Davis, 
Banks Davis, 
John Gifford, 
Samuel Graffam, 
William Green, 
David Hoit, 
John Hoit, 
Samuel Hemmingway, 



Falmouth. 

Druvimer. 
Cape Flizabeth, 

Fifer. 
Scarborough. 

Privates. 
Falmouth. 

Cape Elizabeth, 

Falmouth. 

" Rialstown " also 

given Falmouth. 

Falmouth, 



Sick in Albany. 



Discharged by Doct. Potts. 



Sick at Albany. 



Scarborough. 
Cape Elizabeth. 
Falmouth, 

Scarborough. 
Cape Elizabeth. 
Scarborough. 
Falmouth, 



Prisoner July 7, 1777. 
Sick in hospital. 



Taken prisoner July 7, 1777. 
On furlough. 



Maine at Valley Forge 



41 



Moses Harmon, 
Nathaniel Ingersell, 
Humphrey Jordon, 
John Johnson, 
Allison Ivibby, 
lyuke Ivibby, 
Edmund Libby, 
Edward Libby, 
James Libby, 
William Libby, 
Benjamin Libby, 
Job Lunt, 
Beniah Law, 
Jonathan Lombard, 
Daniel Moody, 
Joel Moody, 
Samuel Murry, 
William Pert, 
John Parker, 
James Proctor, 
William Robinson, 
Aaron Roff, 
Lemuel Rice, 
William Robinson jun 
Jonathan Strought, 
John Stimpson, 
Daniel Small, Jun., 
Philander Smith, 
Lewis Shepard, 
Samuel Tobey, 
William Weaks, 
Isaac McKeney, 

Samuel Plumer, 



Privates {continued). 
Scarborough. 
Falmouth. 

Cape Elizabeth, Sick in hospital. 
Edgecomb. 
Scarborough. 

*' Sick in Albany. 

'• On furlough. 



Falmouth. 

a 

Scarborough. 
Falmouth, 



Scarborough. 



Cape Elizabeth, 

n 

Scarborough. 

Falmouth, 

Scarborough. 

Falmouth . 

Gorham. 

Scarborough, 



Taken prisoner July 7, 1777. 



Sick in hospital. 

Deserted. 

Sick at Albany. 



Sick in hospital. 
On furlough. 

Taken prisoner July 7, 1777. 



Transferred to Boston to 

invalids. 

Discharged. 



42 



Maine at Valley Forge 



George White, 

William Stanwood, 

Isaac Childs, 

Hugh MuUoy, 

Francis Ryan, 
John Given, 
John Hunt, 
Anthony Morse, 

William Allen, 
Luther Hall, 
Thomas Means, 

Samuel Ayers, 



Stephen Attwood, 
Daniel Allen, 
Samuel Adams, 
Benoni Austen, 
Benjamin Berstow, 
James Brown, 
Benjamin Bagley, 
John Cornish, 
Enoch Cox, 
William Cox, 
Thomas Foot, 
Oliver Graffam, 



CAPTAIN GEORGK WHITE'S COMPANY. 

Captain, 
Topsham. 

Lieutenant. 
Brunswick. 

Second Lieutenant. 
Falmouth. 

Ensign. 
Brunswick. 

Sergeants. 
Falmouth. 
Brunswick. 

" Died January i, 1778. 

" Sick in hospital. 

Corporals. 

Topsham . 
Bowdoinham. 
North Yarmouth. 

Fifer. 
Falmouth. 

Privates. 
Cape Elizabeth. 
Topsham. 



Harpswell. 

Brunswick. 

Bristol. 
(I 

Falmouth. 

Brunswick. 

Falmouth. 
(I 

Georgetown, 
Brunswick, 



On command at Albany. 
Taken prisoner July 7, 1777 
Sick at Albany. 



Maine at Valley Forge 



45 



Topsham. 

North Yarmouth. 

Falmouth. 

Brunswick, 
Pownalborough, 



George Grouse, 
Levi Hall, 
William Hall, 
Joseph Jones, 
John Jones, 
Martin Jamerson, 
Zachariah Knight, 
Love Kinney, 
Joseph Laurance, 
John Loyen, also 

given Lynde or Lions. 
Thomas Moore, Falmouth 

William Mathews, 
John McDonald, 
John McDonald, 2d, 
William McGill, 
Jonathan Osburn, 
Francis Purcel, 
Edward Pratt, 
Alexander Potter, 
Richard Poor, 
Timothy Ryan, 
Benjamin Sawyer, 
Nathaniel Spofford, 
Samuel Sawyer, 
Samuel Starbord, 
Daniel Tobby, 
Seth Toothacer, 
Ephraim Taylor, 
William Wilson, 
John Whaling, 
Ezekiel Winslow, 
Joseph Whittam, 
John Whitten, 
Thomas Whittam, 



Privates (^continued). 
Brunswick. 
Bristol, 



Bristol, 
Falmouth. 

Brunswick. 

Falmouth. 
Penobscot, 
Topsham, 

Falmouth, 

Cape Elizabeth. 

Newcastle, 

Cape Elizabeth. 

Brunswick, 

Falmouth. 

Harpswell. 

Bristol, 

Harpswell, 

Georgetown, 

Bristol. 

Topsham, 
Harpswell, 



On furlough. Doctor Potts> 

Sick in hospital. 

On furlough, Dotr. Potts. 



Sick at Albany. 



On command at Albany. 

Sick in hospital. 
Sick in Albany. 
Taken July 7, 1777. 
Discharged. 

Sick in Albany. 

On command in hospital. 

Taken July 7, 1777. 
Sick at Albany. 



Sick in hospital. 
Taken July 7, 1777. 



44 



Maine at Valley Forge 



Timothy Dwyer, 
John Alen, 
Samuel York, 
Peter Warren, 



(^Privates continued). 
Georgetown. 
New Casco. 

Scarborough, 



Cape Elizabeth, 
Wells, 



In service between October i, 
1777, and April i, 1778, but 
company not known. 

Do 
Do 
Do 



George James Hose 

(Hase), 
James Snow, Jr., 
George Webber, 

COLONEIv EDWARD WIGGLBSWORTH'S REGIMENT. 
Lieutenant-Colonel 
James Roberts, Berwick. 

Quartermaster. 
Job Winchell, Berwick. 

CAPTAIN NICHOIvAS BI,ASDBI<I.'S COMPANY. 

Captain. 
Falmouth. 

Lieutenants. 
Falmouth. 
Royalsborough. 

Sergeants. 
Falmouth. 



Nicholas Blasdel, 

Abijah Pool, 
Ichabod Frost, 



John Majory, 
Daniel Mastin or 

Marsden, " 

John Bedel, Old York. 

Corporal. 
Nathaniel Edwards, Buckston. 

Drummer. 
Thomas Kenny, Falmouth. 

Privates. 
John Robinson, Falmouth. 



Maine at Valley Forge 



45 



Joseph Storer, 
Andrew Skeen, 
Thomas Pool, 
Peter Allen, 
John Brazier, 
William Beals, 
Increase Bliffin, 
Nathaniel Blanchard, 
Daniel Brackett, 
John Cellers, 
Noah Cole, 
Stephen Curtis, 
Samuel Cash, 
William Conway, 
John Douglass, 
George Douty, 
George Gerrish, 
James Gerrish, 
Moses Goold, 
Joshua Henshaw, 
Richard Hopkins, 
John Hawks, 
John Hutchins, 
EJlias L,egrow, 
Thomas Owens, 
Thomas Preston, 
William Plummer, 
David Pettingill, 
Samuel Rines, 
Mark Wilson, 
Obediah Robinson, 
William Ridout, 
Thomas Robinson, 
Benja. Robins, 
Moses Starbird, 



Privates {^continued'). 
Falmouth. 



Pownalborough . 
Falmouth. 

Royalsborough. 
Falmouth. 

Old York. 
Falmouth. 
North Yarmouth. 
Cape Elizabeth. 
Old York. 
Scarborough. 
Falmouth. 
Royalsborough. 

Falmouth. 
<i 

Casco Bay. 
Falmouth. 



Topsham. 

Falmouth. 

Scarborough. 

Lewiston. 

Falmouth. 

Woolwich. 
Falmouth. 



Ray mondtown . 



46 



Maine at Valley Forge 



John Sibly, 

John Stanford, 
George Stone, 
Jeremiah Sawyer, 
Josiah Stanford, 
John Townsend, 
Daniel Townsend, 
Peter Walker, 
Isaac Whitney, 
Abraham Whitney, 
David Woodman, 
lycmuel Welsh, 
Bzekiel Laraby, 
John Cross, 
John Wright, 
Samuel Wimble, 
John Gorden, 
John Davidson, 



Privates (^continued'). 
Falmouth. 
Cape Elizabeth. 
Scarborough. 
Cape Elizabeth. 

Vassalborough. 
(( 

Topsham. 



Falmouth. 

Royalsborough. 

Scarborough. 

Woolwich. 

Falmouth. 

Cape Elizabeth. 

Wells, 

Old York. 

major's company. 
Private. 
Samuel Kin cade, New Castle. 

CAPTAIN JOSKPH MCNALI^'S COMPANY. 

Lieutenant. 
Peter Page, Pepperellborough. 

Sergeant. 
Moses Moor, Wells. 



Joseph Goodwin, 
Nehemiah Goodwin, 

Peter McGee, 
William Perkins, 
James Rounds, 



Corporals. 
Buxton. 

Privates. 
Machias, 
Biddeford. 
Buxton. 



Sick in G. hospital. 



Maine at Valley Forge 



47 



George Robbards, 
John Moore, 
William Chadburn, 
John Lee, 
Abijah Lewis, 
Daniel Marshall, 
Thomas Hutchings, 
Richard Jose, 
Samuel Bridges, 
Webster Simpson, 
John Pierce, 
Thomos Guptail, 
Joseph Kimball , 
Thomas Smith, 



JYivates (continued). 
Old York. 
Gorham. 
Berwick. 
Biddeford. 
Buxton. 
Dunston. 
Massabesec. 
Pepperellborough . 
Massabesec. 



Dunston. 

San ford. 

York. 

Massabesec, Sick in Gen'l Hospital. 

CAPTAIN NOAH AHEN'S COMPANY. 

Corporal. 
Thomas Giles, New Boston, Sick in Hospital. 

CAPTAIN NATHANIEL ALEXANDER'S CO. 

Privates . 
Reuben Kinkade, Pownalborough. 

Benjamin Fletcher, " 

Samuel Cunningham, New Castle. 
Chapin Farnham Bristol. 

or Varnum, 
James Shepherd, New Castle. 

Hollis Hutchings, Pownalborough. 
Richard Greenleaf, " 

Robert Murfy, " 

Alexander McLealand, New Castle, 

CAPTAIN DANIEL PILSBURY'S COMPANY. 

Lieutenant 
Jacob Brown, Pepperellborough. 

Serg-eant. 
Jeremiah Lord, Berwick. 



Sick at Fishkill. 
Sick at Albany. 
Killed or taken May 15, '78. 



48 



Maine at Valley Forge 



Privates. 



John Abbot, 
Ivcvi Chadbourn, 
Daniel Eldridge, 
Samuel L,ord, 
Nathan L,ord, 
John Thompson, 
Benja. Downes, 
John Fling, 
Richard Lord, 
James Abbott, 
George Huntriss, 
Peter Hearderson, 
Alexander Cooper, 
Abijah Kenney, 
Simeon Ivord, 
John Shorey, 



Berwick. 
(( 

Gorham. 
Berwick. 



Kennebeck, 
Berwick. 

Casco Bay, 
Berwick. 



On command at " Ridnr." 

Sick at Dunkertown. 
Sick at Yellow Springs. 



Israel Davis, 



Christopher Wood- 
bridge, 

Jeremiah Cromitt, 

Thomas Clark, 

Solomon Baker, 
John Cotton, 
Ephraim Alley, 
Joseph Barter, 
John Patrick, 
Joseph Pulcifer, 



" On furlough at Boston. 

Kennebeck, Do. 

Berwick, Died May 31, 1778. 

" In service at the time but 

on a Valley Forge roll. 

CAPTAIN ISRAEII, DAVIS'S COMPANY. 

Captain. 
Boothbay. 

Lieutenant. 
Newcastle. 



Sergeant. 
Boothbay. 

Corporal. 
Pownalborough. 

Privates. 
Edgecomb. 
Brunswick. 
Boothbay. 

Edgecomb. 
New Castle. 



Job Williams, 
Israel Davis, 
Giles Tibbetts, 
Joseph Lenekin, 
David Terre}', 
John Gaudy 
or Goody, 
Thomas Toby, 
Abraham Wheeler, 
Benjamin Welsh, 
Jonathan Huntoon, 
John Whalin, 
John Shepherd, 
William Maloney, 
John Kent, 
Joshua Witham, 
Caleb Witham, 
Solomon Hopkins, 
Samuel Perham, 
James Tibbets, 



Maine at Valley Forge 

Privates {contimied). 
Boothbay. 



Pownalborough. 
Bristol. 



Boothbay. 

Gardnerstown. 

New Castle. 

Bristol, 

Pownalborough, 

Bristol. 

New Castle, 

Georgetown, 

Edgecomb. 

New Castle. 



49 



Boothbay, 



On comrnand at Radnor. 
On duty with Doctr. General. 

Sick at Reading. 
Sick at Princetown. 



In service at the time but 



James Pattin, 
Matthew Pattin, 
Joseph Maynard, 



not on a Valley Forge roll. 
CAPTAIN AARON HAVNES' COMPANY'. 

Privates. 
Bowdoinham, On command at Redno. 



Kennebec. 
COLONEL JOSEPH VOSE'S REGIMENT. 

CAPTAIN MOSES ASHLEY'S COMPANY. 

Privates. 



Thomas Nealley, 
John Rankin, 



Wells. 
Berwick. 



50 



Maine at Valley Forge 



CAPTAIN ABRAHAM TUCKERMAN'S COMPANY. 

Privates. 
Solomon Bloone, York, Sick in Gen'l Hospital. 

Samuel Harris, Falmouth. 

CAPTAIN ABRAHAM HUNT'S COMPANY. 

First Lieutenant. 
Philip Ulmer, Waldoborough (prob.) 

Sergeant. 
John Little, Newcastle. 

Privates. 
St. Georges, 
North Yarmouth. 
Waldoborough. 
Penobscot. 



John Kelloch, 
Benja. Brown, 
Daniel Beckley, 
Issac Bussell, 
David Bradlee, 
James Kelloch, 
George Ulmer, Jr 
David Kelloch, 
Charles Wallie, 



In Readin Hospital. 



St. Georges. 
Waldoborough . 
St. Georges (prob.) 
Georgetown. 



CAPTAIN JEREMIAH HILL'S COMPANY. 
(later CAPTAIN ROBERT DAVIS'S COMPANY.) 

Private. 
Nathan Johnson, North Yarmouth, In service between Oct. i, 

1777, and April i, 1778, but 
not found on Capt. Davis's 
roll. 

CAPTAIN ROBERT DAVIS'S COMPAN\'. 

Lieutenant. 
George Jacobs, Wells. 

Ensig7i. 
Daniel Hill, Biddeford. 



Maine at Valley Forge 



51 



Abijali Parker, 
Jacob Royall, 
John Hooper, 

William Elder, 
Levi Foss, 
William Goff, 
Starbord Turner, 

Shadrack Knap, 

Theodore Linscot, 

Joseph Linscot, 

William Lawrence, 

Jacob Hooper, 

John Lawrence, 

Robert Martin, 

Jonas Mason, 

John Mason, 

James Butler, 

Daniel Bradbury, 

William Boothby, 

Richard Morse, 

Daniel Brown, 

Benjamin Brown, 

Moses Brown, 

Moses Buck, 

John Cole, 

Edmund Cleaves, 

John Mitchel, 

Jonathan Norton, 

James Campbell, 

John Peirce, 

Sam'l Winthrop Royall, North Yarmouth. 

William Royall, " 



Sergeants. 
Falmouth. 
North Yarmouth. 
Biddeford. 

Co7'porals 
Cape Elizabeth. 
Pepperellborough. 
New Gloucester. 
North Yarmouth. 

Privates. 
North Yarmouth. 
Saco. 

North Yarmouth. 
Biddeford. 
North Yarmouth. 
Pepperellborough. 
New Gloucester. 
North Yarmouth. 

Pepperellborough. 
Scarborough. 
New Gloucester. 
North Y'ar mouth. 



New Gloucester. 
North Yarmouth. 



Pepperellborough. 
New Gloucester. 
Pearsontown. 



52 



Maine at Valley Forge 



Timotliy Donnell, 
Joel Simons, 
David Dennison, 
John Dacy (Dary), 
Noah Smith, 
John Dolly, 
Michael Perren, 
Henry Flood, 
James Flood, 
Aaron Gray, 
Richard Googins, 
Bzekiel Gilpatrick, 
John Stone, 
Jesse Gusten, 
Aaron Harris, 
Jonathan Tyler, 
Isaac Turner, 
John Jacobs, 
Joseph Thomas, 
Samuel Whitehouse, 
Edward Welch, 
EHsha Torry, 
James Uren, 
Thomas Wayling, 
Francis Wayling, 

Nathaniel Hooper, 



Privates (^continued'). 

York. 

New Gloucester. 
North Yarmouth. 

Biddeford. 

Gray. 

North Yarmouth. 

Falmouth. 

Biddeford. 
North Yarmouth. 
Saco. 
Falmouth. 

North Yarmouth. 

New Gloucester. 

North Yarmouth. 

Wells. 

Falmouth. 

Sanford. 

Royalsborough . 

North Yarmouth. 

Biddeford. 

Georgetown. 
(( 

Drummer. 

Kittery. 

Private. 

North Yarmouth. 



William Adkison, 
(Atkins) 

CAPTAIN GEORGE; W. SMITH'S COMPANY. 



George W. Smith, 



Captain. 
Scarborough. 



Maine at Valley Forge 



53 



Archelaus Lewis, 
Nathaniel Nason, 

James Webb, 

John Starbird, 
John Skinner, 
Henry Webb, 
John Melvin, 

David Partridge, 
Bradstreet Butman, 
David Nason, 
Jotham Partridge, 

Nehemiah Vickory, 

James Coolbroth, 
Bickford Dyer, 
Phillip Gammon, 
Caleb Row, 
Enoch Graffam, 
Israel Sweat, 
William Hance, 
John Hance, 
Thomas Haskkell, 
Asa Hatch, 
Jonathan Stone, 
Roger Hunniwell, 
Anthony Starbird, 
John Sanborn, 
Ebenezer Farrington, 
Nicholas Thompson, 



Lieutenants. 
Falmouth, Sick in country. 

Berwick (prob.). Do. 

Ensign. 
Falmouth. 

Sergeants. 
Falmouth. 
Cape Elizabeth. 
Falmouth. 
Gorham. 

Corporals. 
Falmouth, Sick at Fishkill. 

Gray. 
Berwick. 
Falmouth. 

Fifer. 
Falmouth, Sick at Reading. 

Privates. 
Buxton. 
Gorham. 



Pearsontown, 

Windham. 

Falmouth. 

Gorham, 

Falmouth. 



Cape Elizabeth. 

Scarborough, 

Falmouth. 

Pearsontown. 

Fryeburg. 

Falmouth. 



Sick at Reading. 



Sick at Fishkill. 



Sick at Fishkill. 



54 



Maine at Valley Forge 



Mark Leach, 
Stephen Manchester, 
Tufts Thomas, 
Uriah Nason, 
David Vickory, 
Anthony Noble, 
Trueporthy Killgore, 
Thomas Pote, 
Stephen Knight, 
Edmund Weston, 
Arthur Pottenger, 
James Weston, 
Joseph Priest, 
Joseph Wescott, 
Samuel Wescott, 
Mason Wiley, 
Peleg Willard, 
James Whittam, 
Seth Dunton, 
Michael Davis, 
Joseph Quimby, 
Thomas Elliott, 
Adams Royall, 
Reuben Riggs, 
Samuel Royall, 
William Starbird, 
Solomon Starbird, 
Jonathan True, 



John (alias James) 
Mitchell, 



Privates ( cotitinued) . 
Cape Elizabeth, Sick at Albany. 



Sick at Reading. 
Sick at Fishkill. 



Windham, 

Gorham, 

Falmouth. 

Cape Elizabeth. 

Pearsontown. 

Fryeburg. 

Falmouth. 

Fryeburg. 

Cape Elizabeth. 

Falmouth. 

Gorham. 

Falmouth. 

Scarborough. 

Cape Elizabeth, 

Fryeburg. 

Falmouth, 

Harpswell. 

New Boston. 

Falmouth, 

Cape Elizabeth. 

North Yarmouth. 

Falmouth, Sick in the country. 

North Yarmouth, Sick at Albany. 

Pepperellborough, " " 

Falmouth. 

North Yarmouth, In service between Oct. i, 
1777, and Apr. i, 1778, but 
company not given. 



Do. 



On furlough. 
Sick at Albany. 

Attending court-martial. 



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COIvONEIv JOHN BAILEY'S REGIMENT. 

CAPTAIN SETH DREW'S COMPANY, 

Private. 
Rufus White, Old York, Deserted, a transient. 

CAPTAIN GEORGE DUNHAM'S COMPANY. 

Private. 
Joshua Winship, North Yarmouth. 

CAPTAIN SAMUEL DARBY 'S COMPANY. 

Captain. 
Samuel Darby, Old York. 

Lieutenant. 
Simeon lyord, Berwick. 

Ensign, 
Eliakim Hilton, Old York. 

Sergeants. 
Joshua Fernald, Kittery. 

Daniel Weber, Old York. 

Daniel Wadlin, Berwick. 



John Young, 
Stephen Young, 
James Butler, 
Miles Ford, 

Abraham Buzzell, 
Wm. Butler, 
Ichabod Butler, 
Warring Bragdon, 
John Bragdon, 
Joseph Black, 
Dublin Black, 
John Cole, 
Aaron Clements, 
Ebenezer Cole, 



Corporals. 
Old York. 

Berwick. 

Privates. 
Penobscot, 
Berwick. 



Deserted. 



Buxton. 
Berwick, 



Transfer'd. 



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Paul Downs, 

Trueworthy Dudley, 

William Davis, 

James Ford, 

Joshua Fenix, 

Caleb Frost, 

John Glass, 

Ebenezer Hilton, 

Joshua Hamblin or 
Hamilton, 

Jona Hamblin or 

Hamilton, 
Henry Hanson, 
Stephen Hodgsdon, 

Joseph Hodgsdon, 
James Hearl, 
Samuel Kennerson, 
Ichabod Lord, 
Daniel Lord, 
Nathan Lord, 
James McDonnald, 
Edward Moore, 
Moses Nason, 
John Nock, 
James Nock, 
Joseph Parsons, 
Spencer Perkings, 
Daniel Preble, 
John Perkings, 
Abraham Preble, 
Richard Perry, 
Nathan Pilsberry, 
Benja. Row, 
Henry Say ward, 
Moses Spencer, 



Privates (^continued'). 
Berwick. 



Kittery. 
Berwick. 

Wells. 

Berwick. 



Lebanon. 
Berwick. 



Old York. 

ii 

Berwick. 
Old York. 



Kittery. 

Berwick. 
Old York, 
Berwick. 



Dead. 



Discharged. 



Dead. 



Deserted. 



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Privates {continued). 
William Stevens, Kittery. 

John Tobey, Falmouth. 

Alexander Thompson, Berwick. 
Robert White, Arundel. 

Abraham Weeks, Kittery. 

Paul Webber, Old York. 

Nicholas Weymouth, Berwick. 
Benja. Weymouth, " 

Paul Wentworth, " 

Thomas Worster, " 

Nathaniel Young, Old York. 

Jonathan Young, Lebanon, Dead. 

John White, 

COLONEL MICHAEL JACKSON'S REGIMENT. 

CAPTAIN JAMES KEITH'S COMPANY. 

Private. 
Thomas Anderson, Falmouth, Died April, 1778. 

CAPTAIN JOHN BURNHAM'S COMPANY. 

Sergeant. 
David Hill, New Castle, Died Sept. 2, 1778. 

Corporal. 
Joshua Bailey, Woolwich. 

Privates. 
Joseph Lancaster, Woolwich. 

Daniel Bailey, 
Anselm Farnum, 
Nathaniel Foster, 
William Shelden, 
John White, 

Peter Bennett, " Died May 15, 1778. 

William Bunton, No residence given. Deserted Jan. 16, 1778," 

possibly from Maine. 
Spencer Coalby, New Castle, Died Sept. 17, 1778. 



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Privates ( continued') . 

John Bailey, Woolwich, Died Mar. 29, 1778. 

Daniel Gray, " Died Aug. 5, 1778. 

James Blair, • " 

Thomas Stinson, " 

John Smith, " 

CAPTAIN JAMES BANCROFT'S COMPANY. 

Sergeants. 
New Castle. 
Woolwich. 



Daniel McQuigg, 
James Bailey, 
Josiah Bailey, 



Nathaniel Webb, 
William Stinson, 

William Carr, 
James Clark, 
John Farmum, 
Joseph Johnson, 
James Lamson, 
Samuel Lamson, 
John Merrow, 
Prince Rogers, 
Charles Smith, 
Peleg Smith, 
Stephen Tibbetts, 
George Speed, 



Corporal. 
Woolwich. 

Drumrner. 
Woolwich. 

Privates. 
Ball town. 
Pownalborough. 
Woolwich, 
New Castle. 
Boothbay. 

North Yarmouth. 

Balltown. 

Woolwich. 

Bristol. 
New Castle, 



Died May 7, 1778. 



Died Jan. 28, 1778. 



Discharged July 10, 1779. 



Deserted June i, 1779. 



Morritt or 

Morrill Hilton, 

John Ball, 
Edw. Grant, 



CAPTAIN JOHN WILEY'S COMPANY. 

Sergeant. 

Pownalborough. 
Corporals and Sergeants. 
Ballstown, 
St. Georges. 



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James Abbot, 
Joseph Bartlet, 
Joseph Catland, 
Samuel Coalby, 
Joseph Greenleaf, 
Thomas Hunewel, 
William Hilton, 

John Madding, 

Daniel McCarter, 
George Mason, 
Joseph Newman, 
William Payne, 
John Sloman, 
John Shaw, 
Samuel Trask, 
Samuel Turner, 
John Walker, 
James Young, 



Privates. 

Woolwich. 

Sheepscot. 

Damariscotta, 

Edgecomb. 

Pownalborough. 



Died Jan. 30, 1777 fS] 



Private and Corporal. 
St. Georges. 

Privates. 
Pownalborough, Died Dec. 29, 1777. 

Woolwich. 



Edgecomb. 
Woolwich. 



Pownalborough. 
Corporal and Sergeant. 
Ephraim Wiley, St. Georges. 

COLONEL THOMAS MARSHALL'S REGIMENT. 

CAPTAIN SAMUEI. KING'S COMPANY. 

Second Lieutenant. 
Benja. Burton, St. George. 

CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL'S COMPANY. 

Ensign . 
Simeon Tibots, Casco Bay. 

COLONEL'S COMPANY. 

Corporal. 
Isaac Strout, Casco Bay. 



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Privates. 

Evens Carll, Saco, Died Jan. i6, 1778. 

Robert Carll, " Taken prisoner Sept., '79. 

Samuel Cash, Casco Bay. 

David Dennitt, " Died Jan. 20, 1778. 

David Forss, Saco. 

Wm. Johnson, Casco Bay. 

I^IEUfENANT-COLONEI/'S COMPANY. 

Corporals. 
Casco Bay. 



Nathaniel Abbitt, 
Seth Delino, 

Jonah Austin, 
Richard Dole, 

Daniel Elliot, 
Thomas Hill, 
George Parcher, 
Edward Webb, 



Phineas Butler, 
Samuel Bougs, 



Daniel Moses, 

Benjamin Hoit, 

John Fley, 
John Starbird, 



Privates. 
Casco Bay, 



Promoted to Corp. Dec. i, 

1777. 

Promoted " Nov. i, 

1777. 

Died Feb. 2, 1778. 



FIRST COMPANY. 

Corporals. 
Georges, Appointed Nov. i, 1777. 



1778. 



FOURTH COMPANY. 

Sergeant. 
Scarborough. 

Corporal. 
Scarborough. 

Privates. 
Blackpoint. 
Brunswick. 



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COLONEL GAMALIEL BRADFORD'S REGIMENT. 

CAPTAIN ISAIAH STETSON'S COMPANY. 

Sergeant. 
Samuel Howe, Kennebeck, Died Jan. ii, 1778. 

Corporal. 
Daniel Allen, Winthrop. 

Private. 
Gardnerstown. 



Nathaniel Barry, 



John Lemont, ' 

Nicholas Oliver, 
Joshua Shaw, 

Sampson Dow, 
David Philbrook, 
Thomas Foot, 

Samuel Damon, 
David Dickey, 
Samuel Garrell, 
Joseph Evens, 
Thomas Lamont, 
Henry Oliver, 
Thomas Oliver, 
Mark Ridout, 
Joseph Sands, 
Thomas Sands, 
Joseph Swasey, 
James McCib, 



CAPTAIN JOHN LEMONT'S COMPANY. 

Captain. 
Kennebeck. 

Sergeants. 
Georgetown. 

Corporals. 
Vasselborough. 
Gardnerstown. 
Georgetown. 

Privates. 
Gardnerstown. 
Vasselborough . 



Georgetown. 



Vasselborough . 



Georgetown. 



Frederick O. Bkiskey, Gardner. 
John Oliver, Georgetown. 



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CAPTAIN THOMAS TURNER'S COMPANY. 

Private. 
Nicholas Gardener, Georgetown, On furlough. 

JfllCTH COMPANY. 

Privates. 
John Cole, Winslow. 

David Pary (Parry), Georgetown. 

COIvONBIv JAMES WESSON'S REGIMENT. 

CAPTAIN JOHN BLANCHARD'S COMPANY. 

Privates. 
James Scammon, Pepperellborough, Died March 13, 1778. 

William Smith, Gorham. 

CAPTAIN SAMUEL CARR'S COMPANY. 

Private. 
Joshua Staples, Deer Island. 

CAPTAIN NATHAN DIX'S COMPANY. 

Fifer. 
Abner Wormwood, Wells. 

CAPTAIN JOSEPH PETTENGII,I.'S COMPANY. 

Captain. 
Joseph Pettingill, Fryeburg. 

Corporals. 
Supply Walker, Fryeburg. 

Caleb Swan, " 

Dr^lm■mer. 
Timothy Walker, Fryeburg. 

Privates. 
Aaron Cleamonds, Berwick. 

James Kilgore, Fryeburg. 

Peter Coffin, " 

Jonathan Dresser, " 

Wm. Gent, Falmouth. 



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Benja. Woodman, 
Barzillai Anderson, 
John Burges, 



Noah Chandler, 
Ebenezer Lambert, 



Privates {^continued'). 
Penobscot. 
Farmington. 
Fryeburg (?"). 

CAPTAIN AMOS COGSWELL'S COMPANY. 

Privates. 
Kennebeck. 



Quart er'>naster. 
Fryeburg. 

major's company. 
Private. 
Fryeburg. 
COLONEIv TIMOTHY BIGELOW'S REGIMENT. 
captain JOSHUA brown's company. 
Sergeant. 
Brunswick. 

Privates. 
Casco Bay. 
Gorham. 
Falmouth. 

CAPTAIN PAUL ELLIS'S COMPANY. 

Captain. 
Falmouth. 

Sergeants. 
New Gloucester. 
Gray (New Boston). 
Corporal. 
Daniel McCay, Falmouth. 

Drummer. 
George Knight, New Boston. 



Nathaniel Frye 



Jabez Delleano, 



Daniel Hunt, 

Abel Bathrick, 
John Parker, 
John Davis, 



Paul Ellis, 

Samuel Hammond, 
Jonas Stephens, 



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Fifer. 
Cato Shattuck, Falmouth. 

Privates. 
Zebulon Adams, Falmoutli. 

Nath'l Shaw, " 

Samuel Roberts, " 

John Wood, 
Plato McLallen, 
Josiah Milican, 
John Runnels, 
David Jordan, 
George Lasley 

(Lessley), 
Winthrop Knight, 
Joseph Dow, 
John May, 
Joseph Francis, 
Mark Meriel, 
William Young, " 

Nathaniel Young, " 

William Stephens, " 

Samuel Green, Royalsborough. 

CAPTAIN SYLVANUS SMITH'S COMPANY. 

Private. 
John Mason, North Yarmouth. 

COLONEL WILLIAM SHBPARD'S REGIMENT. 

CAPTAIN CAIvEB KEEIP'S COMPANY. 

Private. 
James Matthews, Georgetown. 

CAPTAIN I^EBBEUS BAI,I,'S COMPANY. 

Private. 
George Lessner, Broad Bay. 



Pears onto wn. 
Falmouth. 

Scarborough. 
(( 

New Boston. 



Falmouth. 
New Gloucester. 
New Boston. 



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CAPTAIN MOSES KNAP'S COMPANY. 

Privates. 
Joseph Brown, Damariscotta. 

"William Nash, Sheepscot. 

CAPTAIN REUBEN SLAYTON's COMPANY. 

Private. 
James McCaffrey, Pemaquid, Dead. 



NAMES EIvIMINATED FROM THE LISTS AS NOT AT 

VALLEY FORGE. 

COI^ONEI, SAMUEL brewer's REGIMENT. 

Privates. 

Killed 7 July, [i???]- 

Killed 7 Oct., [1777]. 

Died ist. Oct., [1777]. 

Died 31 Dec, 1776. 

Killed 7th July, [1777]. 

[Name occurs twice in list] . 

Discharged July 9, [1777]. 
<( <( (< 

Killed Oct. 7, [1777]- 
Died Sept. 23d, [1777]. 
Deserted Jan. 3d, [1777]. 

Died at Fort George Dec, 

1776. 

Died 1st. Aug., 1777. 

Deserted May, 1777. 

Discharged 14 June, [1777]. 

Killed 7th July, [1777]. 
Deserted from Boston 7 June, 
[1777]- 



Elias Starbert, 


Falmouth, 


Abel Gatchell, 


Berwick, 


Pelatiah Foss, 


Scarborough, 


Samuel Hall, 


Kittery, 


John Googins, 


Pepperellborough 


Wright Allen, 


Scarborough, 


Pelatiah Berry, 


" 


John Kezwell, 


Kittery, 


Samuel Todd, 


1 1 


Patrick Lillas, 


(( 


Solomon Jordan, 


Cape Elizabeth, 




Not given. 


John McCaslin, 


York, 


Andrew Lydston, 


Kittery, 


Nason Lord, 


Sanford, 


Asa Lassell, 


Arundel, 


Thos. Landell 




Bickford, 


<c 


Abraham Springer, 


c< 



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COI,ONElv BENJAMIN TUPPER'S REGIMENT. 

First Lieutenant. 



Josiah Davis, 



Reuben Sawyer, 
Robert Herrington, 
Robert Stanford, 
Thomas Jones, 
George Crockett, 
John Briant, 
Timothy Dyer, 
Solomon Jackson, 
Charles Ivord, 
Arthur Bridges, 
Herman Treadwell, 
Bbenezer Stuart, 
John Paul, 
James Snow, 
John Huson, 
Josiah Morrison, 
William Chadburn, 
Robert Applebee, 
Uriah Gray, 
Ivonon Rhode, 

James I^ow, 

I/oring Cushing, 
James Flood, 
Martin Hall, 
Joseph Melcher, 
Timothy Pratt, 
Daniel Sargent, 
fohn Shannon, 



Gorham, 

Privates. 

Cape Elizabeth, 

Scarborough, 

Cape Elizabeth, 
<( 

Falmouth, 

Cape Elizabeth, 

Gorham, 

Cape Elizabeth, 

Windham, 

York, 

Wells, 



Arundel, 

York, 

Topsham, 

Windham, 

Corporal. 

Falmouth , 

Privates. 

Cape Elizabeth. 
(( 

Bowdoinham, 

Brunswick, 

Penobscot, 

Brunswick, 

Topsham, 



Discharged Nov. 9, 1777. 

Died March 11, 1777. 
Died Oct. 18, 1777. 
Died Nov. 3, 1777. 
Died July 6, 1777. 
Died Aug. 11, 1777. 
Died July 27, 1777. 

Died Aug. 6, 1777. 
Discharged June 25, 1777. 
Discharged Oct. 12, 1777. 
Died June 27, 1777. 
Died July 11, 1777. 
Discharged Aug. 26, 1777. 
Discharged June 10, 1777. 
Discharged June 10, 1777. 
Deserted June 12, 1777. 
Discharged Aug. 20, 1777. 
Discharged July 20, 1777. 
Died August 16, 1777. 
Died Dec. 9, 1777. 

Killed in Battel July 7, 1777. 

Died Oct. 23, 1777. 
Deserted Sept. 10, 1777. 
Died Dec. 9, 1777. 
Slain in battle Oct. 7, 1777. 
Slain in battle July 7, 1777. 
Deserted July 10, 1777. 
Slain in battle July 7, 1777. 



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David Thompson, 
James Kenady, 
John Stone, 
Thomas Goodwill, 



Privates {continued'). 

Georgetown, Slain in battle July 7, 1777. 

Falmouth, Deserted March 20, 1777. 

Newcastle, Died May 10, 1777. 

York, Died Sept. 6, 1777. 



COLONEL JOSEPH VOSE'S REGIMENT. 

Captain. 
Jeremiah Hill, Biddeford, Resigned Dec. 5, 1777. 

COLONEL JOHN bailey's REGIMENT. 

Private. 
William Preble, Old York, Killed in battle. 



INDEX TO MAINE MEN 



AT VALLEY FORGE 



INDEX 



Abbitt, Nathaniel, 60 

Abbot, James, 59 

Abbott, John, 48 

Abbott, James, 48 

Abbott, Joseph, 38 

Abbott, Walter, 38 

Adams, Joseph, 38 

Adams, Richard, 38 

Adams, Samuel, 42 

Adams, Zebulon, 64 

Adkison, William, (Atkins) 52 

Alen, John, 44 

Allen, Amos, 35 

Allen, Daniel, 61 

Allen, Daniel, 42 

Allen, Pelatiah, 25 

Allen, Peter, 45 

Allen William, 42 

Allen, Wright, 31 

Alley, Ephraim, 48 

Anderson, Barzillai, 63 

Anderson, Thomas, 57 

Arno, John, 29 

Astin, John, (or Austin) 29 

Attwood, Stephen, 42 

Austen, Benoni, 42 

Austin, Jonah, 60 

Ayers, Samuel, 42 

Baker, Jotham, 38 
Baker, Solomon, 48 
Bagley, Benjamin, 42 
Bailey, Daniel, 57 
Bailey, James, 58 
Bailey, John, 58 
Bailey, Joshua, 57 



Bailey, Josiah, 58 

Baley, Hutson, 40 

Ball, John, 58 

Bangs, Nathan, 28 

Banks, Jeremiah, 38 

Barry, Nathaniel, (Berry) 61 

Barter, Joseph, 48 

Bartlet, Joseph, 59 

Barton, Ebenezer, 35 

Bathrick, Abel, 63 

Bay ley, John, 40 

Bayley, William, 40 

Beal, John, 38 

Baal, Matthias ,30 

Beals, William, 45 

Beckley, Daniel, 50 

Bedel, John, 44 

Beels, Benjamin, 26 

Beels, Henry, 26 

Bennett, Peter, 57 

Bently, Samuel, 37 

Berry, George, 35 

Berstow, Benjamin, 42 

Bestor, Foster, 25 

Bettiss, Jeremiah, 30 

Biter, Peter, 29 

Black, Joab, (Josiah) 36 

Black, Joseph, 55 

Black, Moses, 37 

Black, Richard, 38 

Blair, James, 58 

Blake, John, 31 

Blake, John, 31 

Blanchard, Nathaniel, 45 

Blasdel, Nicholas, 44 

Bliffin, Increase, 45 



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Bloone, Solomon, 50 
Bluskey, Frederick O., 61 
Boothby, William, 51 
Boston, Gershom, 25 
Boston, Junior, 40 
Bougs, Samuel, 60 
Bowey, George, (Bovey) 40 
Boyad, William, 37 
Bracket, Anthony, 40 
Bracket, Samuel, 40 
Brackett, Daniel, 45 
Brackitt, Josiah, 26 
Bradbury, Daniel, 51 
Bradbury, Wyman, 30 
Bradlee, David, 50 
Bradstreet, Dudley, 40 
Bragdon, Arthur, 40 
Bragdon, Daniel, 30 
Bragdon, John, 55 
Bragdon, Josiah, 37 
Branscom, Charles, 36 
Brawn, Michael, 28 
Brazier, John, 45 
Briant, Abraham, 35 
Bridges, Samuel, 47 
Bridges, Stephen, 38 
Brimhall, Silvanus, 35 
Brown, Amos, 28 
Brown, Andrew, 33 
Brown, Benjamin, 50 
Brown, Benjamin, 51 
Brown, Daniel, 30 
Brown, Daniel, 51 
Brown, Jacob, 47 
Brown, James, 42 
Brown, Joseph, 65 
Brown, Moses, 51 
Buck, Moses, 51 
Bunton, William, 57 
Burbank, David, 27 
Burbank, Eleazar, 26 
Burbank, Silas, 25 
Burges, John, 63 



Burnal, John, 26 
Burton, Benja., 59 
Bussell, Isaac, 50 
Butler, Ichabod, 55 
Butler, James, 51 
Butler, James, 55 
Butler, John, 31 
Butler, Phineas, 60 
Butler, William, 55 
Butman, Bradstreet, 53 
Buzzell, Abraham, 55 

Campbell, James, 51 

Canada, Philip, (Kannady) 31 

Carll, Ebenezer, (or Carel, Car- 
roll) 27 

Carll, Bvens, 60 

Carll, John, (or Carrell) 26 

Carll, Robert, 60 

Carll, Samuel, (or Carel, Carroll) 
27 

Carr, William, 58 

Carvel, Henry, 30 

Cash, John, 40 

Cash, Samuel, 45 

Cash, Samuel, 60 

Catland, Joseph, 59 

Cellers, John, 45 

Chadbourn, Levi, 48 

Chadbourn, Silas, 34 

Chadburn, William, 47 

Chandler, Noah, 63 

Chase, Bleazer, 36 

Childs, Isaac, 42 

Chute, Josiah, 35 

Clarinbole, Hezekiah, 34 

Clark, Hauniel, 36 

Clark, James, 58 

Clark, Thomas, 48 

Cleamonds, Aaron, 62 

Cleaves, Edmund, 51 

Clements, Aaron, 55 

Clough, Reuben, 40 



Index 



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Cluf, Enoch, 33 
Coalby, Samuel, 59 
Coalby, Spencer, 57 
Cobb, James, 35 
Coffin, Peter, 62 
Colbroth, Daniel, 30 
Colbroth, Lemuel, 30 
Cole, Ebenezer, 30 
Cole, Ebenezer, 55 
Cole, John, 51 
Cole, John, 55 
Cole, John, 62 
Cole, Noah, 45 
Cole, Samuel, 31 
Cole, William, 25 
Conant, Barthow. , 36 
Conway, William, 45 
Cool, John, 29 
Coolbroth, James, 32 
Coolbroth, James, 53 
Cooms, Joseph Strout, 32 
Cooper, Alexander, 48 
Cornish, John, 42 
Cotton, John, 48 
Couch, William, 30 
Cousens, Samuel, 37 
Cox, Benjamin, 40 
Cox, Enoch, 42 
Cox, John, 30 
Cox, William, 42 
Cresey, Benjamin, 35 
Crime, Timothy, 33 
Cromitt, Jeremiah, 48 
Cross, John, 46 
Cunningham, Samuel, 47 
Curtis, Stephen, 45 
Cushiug, Loriug, 30 

Dacy, John, (Dary) 52 
Damon, Samuel, 61 
Darby, Samuel, 55 
Davidson, John, 46 
Davis, Banks, 40 



Davis, Elijah, 28 
Davis, Israel, 48 
Davis, John, 63 
Davis, Joshua, 29 
Davis, Michael, 54 
Davis, Nathaniel, 38 
Davis, Philip, 31 
Davis, William, 35 
Davis, William, 40 
Davis, William, 56 
Day, Dependence, 32 
Day, Nathaniel, 25 
Dearing, William, 30 
Delino, Seth, 60 
Delleano, Jabez, 63 
Dempsey, James, 30 
Deneco, Joseph, 33 
Dennison, David, 52 
Dennitt, David, 60 
Dickey, David, 61 
Dixon, Abraham, 30 
Dixon, Wm., 26 
Dole, Richard, 60 
Dolly, John, 52 
Donnell, James, 29 
Donnell, Jotham, 30 
Donnell, Timothy, 52 
Dorman, John, 33 
Dormau, Josiah, 38 
Douglass, John, 45 
Douty, George, 45 
Douty, Jonathan, 27 
Dow, Joseph, 64 
Dow, Sampson, 61 
Downes, Benjamin, 48 
Downs, Paul, 56 
Dresser, Jonathan, 62 
Drown, Moses, 38 
Drown, Stephen, 38 
Dudley, Trueworthy, 56 
Dunn, Christopher, 35 
Dunton, Seth, 54 
Dwyer, Timothy, 44 



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Dyer, Benjamin, 27 
Dyer, Bickford, 32 
Dyer, Bickford, 53 
Dyer, Ephaim, 35 
Dyer, Samuel, 26 

Kastman, John, 27 
Eaton, Joseph, 38 
:Baton, "William, 38 
Edwards, Daniel, 38 
Edwards, Nathaniel, 44 
Elder, William, 51 
Eldridge, Daniel, 48 
Elliot, Daniel, 60 
Elliott, Thomas, 54 
Ellis, Paul, 63 
Emery, David, 29 
Emery, Nathan, 29 
Emery, Shim, 28 
Evens, Joseph, 61 

Facundus, Abraham, 38 

Fairfield, John, 33 

Fairfield, William, 33 

Farmum, John, 58 

Farnham, Chapin, (or Varnum) 47 

Farnum, Anselm, 57 

Farrington, Ebenezer, 53 

Fenix, Joshua, 56 

Fernald, James, 28 

Femald, Joshua, 55 

Ferrin, Michael, 52 

Ficket, Nathaniel, 27 

Ficket, Vincent, 27 

Field, Daniel, 37 

Fields, Jonathan, 27 

Fletcher, Benjamin, 47 

Fley, John, 60 

Fling, John, 48 

Flood, Henry, 52 

Flood, James, 52 

Foot, Thomas, 42 

Foot, Thomas, 61 



Ford, James, 56 
Ford, Miles, 55 
Forss, David, 60 
Foss, Levi, 51 
Foss, Zechariah, 27 
Foster, Joseph, 30 
Foster, Nathaniel, 57 
Foye, John, 28 
Francis, Joseph, 64 
Frank, Thomas, 29 
Ereeman, John, 37 
Freeman, Jr., John, 37 
Freethey, Joseph, 37 
Frost, Caleb, 56 
Frost, Ichabod, 44 
Frost, Nathaniel, 26 
Frost, Reuben, 26 
Frost, William, 25 
Frye, Nathaniel, 63 

Gammon, Phillip, 53 

Gardener, Nicholas, 62 

Garrell, Samuel, 61 

Gasten, Jesse, 52 

Gatchell, Zachariah, 30 

Gaudy, John, (or Goody) 49 

Gent, Wm., 62 

Gerrish, George, 45 

Gerrish, James, 45 

Gibson, John, 30 

Gifford, John, 40 

Giles, Paul, 33 

Giles, Thomas, 47 

Gilkey, James, 28 

Gilpatrick, Ezekiel, 52 

Given, John, 42 

Glass, John, 56 

Goff, William, 51 

Goodwin, John Dunmark, 32 

Goodwin, Joseph, 46 

Goodwin, Nehemiah, 46 

Goodwin, Samuel, 32 

Goodwin, Samuel, (or Goodale) 38 



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Googins, Richard, 52 
Goold, Moses, 45 
Gorden, John, 46 
Graffam, Enoch, 53 
Graffam, Oliver, 42 
Graffam, Samuel, 40 
Grant, Daniel, 26 
Grant, Edw., 58 
Grant, Peter, 38 
Gray, Aaron, 52 
Gray, Daniel, 58 
Gray, Dominicus, 38 
Greely, John, 28 
Green, Benjamin, 27 
Green, Daniel, 27 
Green, John, 28 
Green, John, 35 
Green, Joseph, 27 
Green, Samuel, 64 
Green, Solomon 27 
Green, William, 40 
Greenleaf, Joseph, 59 
Greenleaf, Richard, 47 
Grouse, George, 43 
Guptail, Thomas, 47 
Guston, David, 36 

Hall, Charles, 27 

Hall, Job, 27 

Hall, Levi, 43 

Hall, Luther, 42 

Hall, William, 43 

Hamblen, Elijah, 35 

Hamblin, (or Hamilton) Jona, 56 

Hamblin, (or Hamilton) Joshua, 

56 
Hammond, Samuel, 63 
Hammond, Seth, 28 
Hance, John, 53 
Hance, William, 53 
Hanscom, Nath'l, 31 
Hanson, Henry, 56 
Harmon, Moses, 41 



Harmon, Thomas, 27 

Harris, Aaron, 52 

Harris, Samuel, 50 

Harriss, Samuel, 33 

Harvey, Thomas, 31 

Haskel, John, 36 

Haskell, Thomas, 53 

Hasty, William, 39 

Hatch, Asa, 53 

Hatch, David, 28 

Hatch, Ezekiel, 33 

Hatch, John, 37 

Hatch, Joshua, 38 

Hawks, John, 45 

Hearderson, Peter, 48 

Hearl, James, 56 

Hemmingway, Samuel, 40 

Henshaw, Joshua, 45 

Hicks, Samuel, 40 

Hill, Daniel, 50 

Hill, David, 57 

Hill, Nelson, 32 

Hill, Thomas, 60 

Hilton, Ebenezer, 56 

Hilton, Eliskim, 55 

Hilton, Morritt, (or Morrill) 58 

Hilton, William, 59 

Hiues, Richard, 25 

Hiukley, Seth, 29 

Hodgsdon, Joseph, 56 

Hodgsdon, Stephen, 56 

Hoit, Benjamin, 60 

Hoit, David, 40 

Hoit, John, 40 

Holden, John, 37 

Holmes, John, 34 

Hooper, Jacob, 51 

Hooper, John, 51 

Hooper, Nathaniel, 52 

Hopkins, Richard, 45 

Hopkins, Solomon, 49 

Hose, George James, (Hase) 44 

How, Daniel, 25 



76 



Maine at Valley Forge 



Howe, Samuel, 6i 
Hubbard, Joseph, 32 
Hughes, Nicholas, 36 
Hunewel, Thomas, 59 
Hunniford, Josiah, 32 
Hunniwell, Roger, 53 
Hunt, Daniel, 63 
Hunt, Ichabod, 29 
Hunt, John, 42 
Hunt, William, 35 
Huntoon, Jonathan, 49 
Huntriss, George, 48 
Hurchins, Noah, 30 
Hutchings, Hollis, 47 
Hutchings, Levi, 32 
Hutchings, Samuel, 33 
Hutchings, Simeon, 32 
Hutchings, Thomas, 47 
Hutchins, Asa, 25 
Hutchins, John, 45 

Ingersell, Nathaniel, 41 

Jackson, James, 26 
Jackson, Henry, 35 
Jackson, Robert, 36 
Jacobs, Benjamin, 31 
Jacobs, George, 50 
Jacobs, John, 52 
Jamerson, Martin, 43 
Jenkins, Josiah, 28 
Jenkins, Samuel, 28 
Johnson, Nathan, 50 
Johnson, Stephen, 38 
Johnson, Wm., 60 
Jones, Jeremiah, 32 
Jones, John, 43 
Jones, Joseph, 43 
Jones, Lazarus, 38 
Jones, Samuel, 38 
Jonson, John, 41 
Jordan, David, 64 
Jordan, Edmond, 35 



Jordan, Hezekiah, 35 
Jordan, Humphrey, 41 
Jordan, James, 35 
Jordan, John, 26 
Jordan, John, 35 
Jordan, Robert, 36 
Jose, Richard, 47 

Kelloch, David, 50 
Kelloch, James, 50 
Kelloch, John, 50 
Kendal, William, 29 
Kennard, Timothy, 28 
Kennerson, Samuel, 56 
Kenney, Abijah, 48 
Kenny, Thomas, 44 
Kent, John, 49 
Kent, Stephen, 38 
Kincade, Samuel, 46 
Kinkade, Reuben, 47 
Kilgore, James, 62 
Kill gore, Truporthy, 54 
Kimbal, Isaac, 33 
Kimball, Jacob, 33 
Kimball, Joseph, 47 
Kimball, Nathan, 38 
Kinney, Love, 43 
Knap, Shadrack, 51 
Knight, George, 63 
Knight, Stephen, 54 
Knight, Winthrop, 64 
Knight, Zachariah, 43 
Knights, John, 29 

Laller, Daniel, 31 
Lambert, Ebenezer, 63 
Lamont, Thomas, 61 
Lamson, James, 58 
Lamson, Samuel, 58 
Lancaster, Joseph, 57 
Laraby, Ezekiel, 46 
Lasley, George, (Lessly) 64 
Lassell, Caleb, 33 



Index 



77 



Laurance, Joseph, 43 

Law, Beniah, 41 

Lawrence, John, 51 

Lawrence, William, 51 

Leach, Mark, 54 

Leary, James, 27 

Lee, John, 47 

Legrow, Elias, 45 

Legrow, Joseph, 45 

Lemont, John, 61 

Lenekin, Joseph, 49 

Lessner, Georre, 64 

Lewis, Abijah, 47 

Lewis, Archelaus, 53 

Lewis, Benjamin, 33 

Lewis, Edward, 32 

Lewis, Joseph, 33 

Libbey, Azariah, 26 

Libby, Allison, 41 

Libby, Benjamin, 41 

Libby, Edmund, 41 

Libby, Edward, 41 

Libby, Francis, 35 

Libby, Hanson, 39 

Libby, James, 41 

Libby, Joab, 34, 

Libby, Jonathan, 34 

Libby, Luke, 41 

Libby, Reuben, 37 

Libby, Simeon, 40 

Libby, William, 41 

Lincoln, Joseph, 31 

Linnard, (Leonard) Williams, 

Linscot, Joseph, 51 

Linscot, Theodore, 51 

Lithgo, William, 34 

Little, John, 50 

Littlefield, Anthony, 23 

Littlefield, David, 38 

Littlefield, John, 38 

Littlefield, Jotham, 39 

Littlefield, Noah M., 34 

Lombard, Jonathan, 41 



Lord, Abraham 33, 

Lord, Daniel, 56 

Lord, Ichabod, 56 

Lord, Jeremiah, 47 

Lord, Nathan, 48 

Lord, Richard, 48 

Lord, Samuel, 48 

Lord, Simeon, 48 

Lord, Simeon, 55 

Lowell, Paul 29 

Loyen, (also Lynde or laons) John, 

43 
Lumbard, Butler, 35 
Lumbard, Caleb, 35 
Lumbard, Jedidiah, 35 
Lumbard, Nathaniel, 35 
Lunt, Daniel, 39 
Lunt, Job, 41 
Lydston, Robey, 31 

Madding, John, 59 
Majory, John, 44 
Maloney, William, 49 
Manchester, Stephen, 54 
Marshall, Daniel, 47 
Martin, Robert, 51 
Marton, Ebenezer, 28 
Mason, George, 59 
Mason, John, 51 
Mason, John, 64 
Mason, Jonas, 51 
Mastin, (or Marsden) Daniel, 44 
39 Mathews, William, 43 
Matthews, James, 64 
May, John, 64 
Maybe rry, Richard, 34 
Mayberry, Richard, 35 
Mayberry, William, 35 
Maynard, Joseph, 49 
McCaffrey, James, 65 
McCarter, Daniel, 59 
McCay, Daniel, 63 
McCib, James, 61 



78 



Maine at Valley Forge 



McDannell, (or McDonnell) Pela- 

tiah, 26 
McDanniel, (or McDonnell) Abner, 

27 
McDonald, John, 43 
McDonald, John, 2d, 43 
McDonnald, James, 56 
McFarland, Robert, 36 
McGee, Peter, 46 
McGill, William, 43 
McKeney, Isaac, 41 
McKeney, Joseph, 40 
McKeney, William, 39 
McLallen, Joseph, 29 
McLallen, Plato, 64 
Mcl/ealand, Alexander, 47 
McDucas, Joshua, 31 
McQuigg, Daniel, 58 
McVaughan, Daniel, 26 
Means, James, 25 
Means, Thomas, 42 
Melvin, John, 53 
Mendum, Jonathan, 30 
Meriel, Mark, 64 
Merrill, Daniel, 32 
Merrill, Jacob, 34 
Merrill, Moses, 27 
Merrow, John, 58 
Milbury, Jotham, 31 
Milican, Josiah, 64 
Miller, Benjamin, 33 
Miller, John, 36 
Miller, Lemuel, 32 
Millions, Robert, 35 
Mirick, John, 28 
Mitchel, Gregory, 39 
Mitchel, John, 39 
Mitchel, John, 51 
Mitchell, John, 27 
Mitchell, John, (alias James) 54 
Mitchell, Richard, 29 
Moody, Daniel, 41 
Moody, Joel, 41 



Moor, Moses, 46 
Moore, Edward, 56 
Moore, John, 47 
Moore, Thomas, 43 
Morse, Anthony, 42 
Morse, Richard, 51 
Morton, Jr., Ebenezer, 29 
Moses, Daniel, 60 
MuUoy, Hugh, 42 
Murch, John, 26 
Murch, Matthias, 32 
Murphy, Robert, 47 
Murry, Samuel, 41 

Nash, William, 65 
Nason, Benjamin, 28 
Nason, David, 53 
Nason, John, 37 
Nason, Joshua, 32 
Nason, Moses, 56 
Nason, Nathaniel, 53 
Nason, Uriah, 54 
Nason, Shubel, 39 
Nealley, Thomas, 49 
Newman, Joseph, 59 
Noble, Anthony, 54 
Nock, James, 56 
Nock, John, 56 
Norman, John, 39 
Norton, Jonathan, 51 
Nowel, Zachariah, 40 

Oliver, Henry, 61 
Oliver, John, 61 
Oliver, Nicolas, 61 
Oliver, Thomas, 61 
Osburn, Jonathan, 43 
Osgood, David, 37 
Owen, Philip, 40 
Owens, Thomas, 45 

Page, Peter, 46 
Parcher, Daniel, 26 



Inaex 



79 



Parcher, George, 60 
Parker, Abijah, 51 
Parker, John, 41 
Parker, John, 63 
Parkus, Edward, 32 
Parsons, Joseph, 56 
Parsons, Josiah, 37 
Partridge, David, 53 
Partridge, Jotham, 53 
Pary (Parry), David, 62 
Patch, John, 26 
Patch, Jonathan, 26 
Patch, Robert, 26 
Patch, Samuel, 26 
Patrick, John, 48 
Patten, John, 32 
Pattin, James, 49 
Pattin, Mathew, 49 
Payne, William, 59 
Peabody, Seth, 34 
Peckin, Frederickj 29 
Peebody, Josiah, 27 
Peirce, John, 47 
Peirce, John, 51 
Penney, Salathiel, 32 
Perham, Samuel, 49 
Perkings, John, 56 
Perkings, Spencer, 56 
Perkins, William, 46 
Perry, Richard, 56 
Pert, William, 41 
Pettingill, David, 45 
Pettingill, Joseph, 62 
Philbrook, David, 61 
Phinney, Ebenez., 29 
Pilsbery, Tobias, 34 
Pilsberry, Nathan, 56 
Plumbley, Oliver, 39 
Plumer, Samuel, 41 
Plummer, Edward, 40 
Plummer, William, 35 
Plummer, William, 45 
Pool, Abijah, 44 



Pool, Thomas, 44 
Poland, Moses, 29 
Poor, Richard, 43 
Pote, Thomas, 54 
Pottenger, Arthur, 54 
Potter, Alexander 43 
Pratt, Edward, 43 
Pray, John, 32 
Preble, Abraham, 56 
Preble, Daniel, 56 
Preble, Daniel, 31 
Preston, Thomas, 45 
Pribble, Abraham, 39 
Priest, Joseph, 54 
Proctor, James, 41 
Pulcifer, Joseph, 48 
Purcel, Francis, 43 

Quimby, Joseph, 54 

Rackley, Chandler, 36, (also given 

Rackliff, Joseph C.) 36 
Rankin, John, 49 
Record, Daniel, 33 
Reed, Jacob, 37 
Reed, John, 32 
Remick, Timothy, 29 
Rhods, Benjamin, 33 
Rice, Lemuel, 41 
Richards, Francis, 34 
Ridout, Mark, 61 
Ridout, William, 45 
Riggs, Reuben, 54 
Rines, Samuel, 45 
Runnels, John, 64 
Rutledge, Archibald, 39 
Robbards, George, 47 
Roberts, James, 44 
Roberts, Samuel, 64 
Robins, Benjamin, 45 
Robinson, George, 36 
Robinson, John, 44 
Robinson, Obediah, 45 



So 



Maine at Valley Forge 



Robinson, Samuel, 40 
Robinson, Thomas, 45 
Robinson, William, 41 
Robinson, Jun., William, 41 
Roff, Aaron, 41 
Rogers, David, 30 
Rogers, Prince, 58 
Rollf, Benja., 29 
Rounds, James, 46 
Row, Benja., 56 
Row, Caleb, 53 
Royall, Adams, 54 
Royall, Jacob, 51 
Royall, Samuel, 54 
Royall, Samuel W., 51 
Royall, William, 51 
Ryan, Francis, 42 
Ryan, James, 36 
Ryan, Timothy, 43 

Sanborn, John, 53 
Sanbourn, Simeon, 27 
Sands, Joseph, 61 
Sands, Thomas, 61 
Sargant, Charles, 26 
Sargant, Joseph, 29 
Sargent, Daniel, 31 
Sawyer, Abraham, 39 
Sawyer, Benjamin, 43 
Sawyer, Ephraim, 36 
Sawyer, Jeremiah, 46 
Sawyer, Lemuel, 34 
Sawyer Nathaniel, 36 
Sawyer, Samuel, 43 
Sawyer, William, 36 
Say ward, Henry, 56 
Scammon, James, 62 
Seave (Seavey) Joseph, 34 
Seavey, Ebenezer, 27 
Settenbeger, Jacobs, 37 
Sewall, Henry, 29 
Shattuck, Cato, 64, 
Shaw, John, 59 



Shaw, Joshua, 61 
Shaw, Nath'l 64 
Shelden, William, 57 
Shepard, Lewis, 41 
Shepherd, James, 47 
Shepherd, John, 49 
Shorey, John, 48 
Sibly, John, 46 
Simon ton, Walter, 36 
Simons, Joel, 52 
Simpson, Webster, 47 
Skeen, Andrew, 45 
Skinner, John, 53 
Sloman, John, 59 
Small, Daniel, 36 
Small, Daniel, 39 
Small, Jun. Daniel, 41 
Small, Elisha, 36 
Smart, James, 26 
Smart, John, 31 
Smith, Charles, 58 
Smith, George, W., 52 
Smith, Jacob, 27 
Smith, John, 58 
Smith, Lemuel, 26 
Smith, Noah, 52 
Smith, Peleg, 58 
Smith, Peter, 36 
Smith, Philander, 41 
Smith, Thomas, 47 
Smith, William, 62 
Snow, Jr., James, 44 
Speed, George, 58, 
Spencer, Moses, 56 
Spencer, Solomon, 29 
Spofford, Nathaniel 43 
Spokesfield, Thomas, 30 
Stanford, John, 46 
Stanford, Josiah, 46 
Stanwood, William, 42 
Staples, Joshua, 62 
Starbird, Anthony, 53 
Starbird, John, 53 



Index 



8i 



Starbird, John, 60 
Starbird, Moses, 45 
Starbird, Solomon, 54 
Starbird, William, 54 
Starbord, Samuel, 43 
Stephens, Jonas, 63 
Stephens, William, 64 
Stevens, Edmund, 39 
Stevens, John, 34 
Stevens, Moses, 31 
Stevens, William, 57 
Stimpson, John, 41 
Stinson, Thomas, 58 
Stinson, William, 58 
Stone, George, 46 
Stone, John, 52 
Stone, Jonathan, 53 
vStone, Joseph, 36 
Storer, Ebenezer, 30 
Storer, Joseph, 45 
Stover, Christover, 32 
Strought, Jonathan, 41 
Strout, Isaac, 59 
Strout, John, 36 
Sutton, John, 39 
Swan, Caleb, 62 
Swasey, Joseph, 61 
Sweat, Israel, 53 
Swett, John, 36 

Taylor, Ephraim, 43 
Taylor, Noah, 33 
Terry, David, 49 
Thomas, Joseph, 52 
Thomas, John, 37 
Thomes, Samuel, 39 
Thompson, Alexander, 33 
Thompson, Alexander, 57 
Thompson, Barthow., 37 
Thompson, Benjamin, 28 
Thompson, David, 32 
Thompson, James, 33 
Thompson, John, 48 



Thompson, Joseph, 36 
Thompson, Nicholas, 53 
Thompson, Richard, 32 
Thompson, Jr., Richard, 33 
Thompson, William, 36 
Thomdick, Jonathan, 27 
Tibbets, James, 49 
Tibbetts, Giles, 49 
Tibbetts, Stephen, 58 
Tibots, Simeon, 59 
Tobby, Daniel, 43 
Toben, Matthew, 37 
Tobey, John, 57 
Tobey, Samuel, 41 
Toby, Thomas, 49 
Toothacer, Seth, 43 
Torry, Elisha, 52 
Toward, Daniel, 29 
Townsend, John, 46 
Townseud, Daniel, 46 
Trafton, Benjamin 30 
Trask, Samuel, 59 
Treadwell, Masters, 39 
Tripp, Stephen, 36 
Trott, John, 31 
True, Jonathan, 54 
True, Obadiah, 39 
Tufts, Thomas, 54 
Turner, Isaac, 52 
Turner, Samuel, 59 
Turner, Starbord, 51 
Twitchel, Moses, 31 
Tyler, Andrew, 26 
Tyler, Jonathan, 52 

Ulmer, Jr., George, 50 
Ulmer, Philip, 50 
Uren, James, 52 

Vickory, David, 54 
Vickory, Nehemiah, 53 

Wadlin, Daniel, 55 



82 



Maine at Valley Foi'ge 



Wagg, James, 29 
Wakefield, Gibeons, 33 
Walker, John, 59 
Walker, Peter, 46 
Walker, Supply, 62 
Walker, Timothy, 62 
Wallie, Charles, 50 
Warren, Adriel, 25 
Warren, Peter, 44 
Watts, David, 28 
Wayling, Francis, 52 
Wayling, Thomas, 52 
Weaks, William, 41 
Webb, David, 27 
Webb, Edward, 60 
Webb, Henry, 53 
Webb, James, 53 
Webb, Nathaniel, 58 
Weber, Daniel, 55 
Webber, Edward, 31 
Webber, George, 44 
Webber, John, 39 
Webber, Jonathan, 39 
Webber, Joseph, 36 
Webber, Paul, 57 
Webster, Jonathan, 36 
Weekes, Abraham, 57 
Welch, Edward, 52 
Welch, Lemuel, 31 
Welsh, Benjamin, 49 
Welsh, Lemuel, 46 
Wentworth, Paul, 57 
Wescot, Joshua, 28 
Wescott, Joseph, 54 
Wescott, Samuel, 54 
Weston, Edmund, 54 
Weston, James, 54 
Weymouth, Benja., 57 
Weymouth, Nicholas, 57 
Whalin, John, 49 
Whaling, John, 43 
Wheeler, Abraham, 49 
Wheelwright, Daniel, 37 



Wheelwright, Samuel, 38 

White, George, 42 

White, John, 57 

White John, 57 

White, Robert, 57 

White, Rufus, 55 

Whitehouse, Samuel, 52 

Whitney, Abraham, 46 

Whitney, Isaac, 46 

Whitney, Jesse, 36 

Whitney, John, 33 

Whittam, James, 54 

Whittam, Joseph, 43 

Whittam, Thomas, 43 

Whitten, John, 43 

Whittum, James, 32 

Wiley, Ephraim, 59 

Wiley, Mason, 54 

Willard, Peleg, 54 

Williams, Job, 49 

Williamson, James, 31 

Wilson, Charles, 34 

Wilson, Mark, 45 

Wilson, William, 43 

Wimble, Samuel, 46 

Winch ell. Job, 44 

Winship, Joshua, 55 

Winslow, Ezekiel, 43 

Wissel, Enoch, 28 

Witemore, (or Whitmore) Wm.» 

27 
Witham, Caleb, 49 
Whitham, James, 26 
Witham, Joshua, 49 
Witham, Jedidiah, 26 
Witney, Jonathan, 29 
Wollace, Josiah, 35 
Wood, John, 64 
Woodbridge, Christopher, 48 
Woodman, Benja., 63 
Woodman, David, 46 
Woodsom, David, 36 
Wormwood, Abner, 62 



Index 



83 



Worster, Thomas, 57 
Wright, John, 46 
Wright, Thomas, 39 

York, Abraham, 27 
York, George, 37 
York, Samuel, 44 
Young, Ebenezer, 39 



Young, James, 59 
Young, John, 55 
Young, Jonathan, 57 
Young, Joseph, 39 
Young, Nathaniel, 57 
Young, Nathaniel, 64 
Young, Stephen, 55 
Y'oung, William, 64 



MAINE MEN IN WASHINGTON'S ARMY BUT NOT AT 
VALLEY FORGE 



Allen, Wright, 65 
Applebee, Robert, 66 

Berry, Pelatiah, 65 
Bickford, Thos., Ivandell, 65 
Briant, John, 66 
Bridges, Arthur, 66 

Chadburu, William, 66 
Crockett, George, 66 
Cushing, Loring, 66 

Davies, Josiah, 66 
Dyer, Timothy, 66 

Flood, James, 66 
Foss, Pelatiah, 65 

Gatchell, Abel, 65 
-Goodwill, Thomas, 67 
Googins, John, 65 
Gray, Uriah, 66 

Hall, Martin, 66 
Hall, Samuel, 65 
Harrington, Robert, 66 
Hill, Jeremiah, 67 
Huson, John, 66 

Jackson, Solomon, 66 
Jones, Thomas, 66 
Jordan, Solomon, 65 



Kenady, James, 67 
Kezwell, John, 65 

Lassell, Asa, 65 
Lillas, Patrick, 65 
Lord, Charles, 66 
Lord, Nason, 65 
Low, James, 66 
Lydston, Andrew, 65 

McCaslin, John, 65 
Melcher, Joseph, 66 
Morrison, Josiah, 66 

Paul, John, 66 
Pratt, Timothy, 66 
Preble, William, 67 
Rhode, Lonon, 66 

Sargent, Daniel, 66 
Sawyer, Reuben, 66 
Shannon, John, 66 
Snow, James, 66 
Springer, Abraham, 65 
Stanford, Robert, 66 
Starbert, Elias, 65 
Stone, John, 67 
Stuart, Ebenezer, 66 

Thompson, David, 67 
Todd, Samuel, 65 
Tread well, Herman, 66 



